re Asafiev

Asafiev's "intonations" are quite similar to Boleslav Yavorsky's
"intonations." Yavorsky built his theory of musical modes around
tritone resolutions and his student Protopopov extended it to microtonal
systems in "The Elements of the Structure of Musical Speech." See the
compilation of articles by Gordon D. McQuere, "Russian Theoretical
Thought in Music. UMI Research Press. 1983. Brian McLaren probably knows
a lot more about it.

The was a lot of interest in microtonality, including JI, in the Soviet
Union in the 1920's and 30's before Stalin and his henchman Zhdanov
stopped it.

--John

--- In tuning@y..., John Chalmers <JHCHALMERS@U...> wrote:
> Asafiev's "intonations" are quite similar to Boleslav Yavorsky's
> "intonations." Yavorsky built his theory of musical modes around
> tritone resolutions

Sounds like my own theory!

> and his student Protopopov extended it to microtonal
> systems in "The Elements of the Structure of Musical Speech."

Fascinating.

> See the
> compilation of articles by Gordon D. McQuere, "Russian Theoretical
> Thought in Music. UMI Research Press. 1983.

Wow. I'll have to seek this out.