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fortuitous realties

🔗D.Stearns <STEARNS@CAPECOD.NET>

5/30/2001 1:03:05 PM

One of the other fortuitous realties of 72's relation to 12 is that
composers can explore certain aspects of 72 on traditional instruments
in standard notation so long as the instruments overall intonation can
be shimmied up or down by increments (or tuning units) of 72.

For a monochromatic example of just this, and a good long soak in 72,
go here:

<http://artists.mp3s.com/artist_song/491/491153.html>
<http://artists.mp3s.com/artist_song/491/491182.html>
<http://artists.mp3s.com/artist_song/491/491202.html>

Note -- In a private email correspondence with Seth Josel that I
forwarded to the list several months ago he mistakenly cited the
tuning alterations in this piece as tuning units of 36 and not 72 (he
was on the road without any reference materials and it had been
several years since he had played the piece). Thanks to Paul Erlich
for picking up on this and setting the record straight.

--Dan Stearns