prototypes popping up! (Protopopoff)

Anton Rovner just send me an interesting e-mail that I am certain he
won't mind me sharing with the list. Soon he will have an article
describing the way Protopopoff's tritone theory fits into his
expanded notion of microtonality:

Dear Joseph,

Of course you can post my article on Protopopoff on the tuning list.
I would always welcome additional publicity and the Ukrainian journal
will certainly not mind.

The microtonal Yavorsky/Protopopoff ideas are very interesting, but
you have to keep in mind that they are the next step (or the next
grade in school) after his ideas on tonal and atonal music (which I
have wrote about extensively in my article). I promised Johnny a
while ago to help him get access to these ideas. While it would be a
bit difficult to summarize these ideas during the next few days, I do
want to give them some attention. I think that the best way for me to
disseminate these ideas is to write a short article or paper about
them, summarizing them and giving prospective composers ideas on how
to use them practically in their compositions.

Protopopoff himself used Yavorsky's ideas (chiefly applicable to tonal
music) in his own compositions (which were not tonal, but chromatic
like late Scriabin), so the next extension of that would be for
someone to write some microtonal compositions using Protopopoff's
microtonal ideas.

To make a long story short, the microtonal ideas also involve
dissonant intervals like tritones resolving into consonant intervals
like major or minor thirds, except that in the new resolutions
microtones are used (equal tempered ones - quarter-tones, third-
tones, eighth tones) in particular cases. The thing that I have to
figure out is in what particular case what microtones I use. Once I
will read about it more extensively, I will write to you about it,
and then write an article about it.

Best,

Anton