Persian tuning

Paul!
Erv has not proposed any tuning for the Persian/arabic world. He has
commented on, with Amiya
Dasgupta, on how the Persian 17 tuning was adopted to North India. Along
with personal
communications which includes those head of the UCLA music department,
there are also others at
the University of Washington, plus all the recent records, that refer to
the 17 as the reference
for tuning. One of the reasons that Wilson, or myself or few others
have proposed a mid east
tuning is that we recognize that the intonational practices very greatly
around the traditional
pitches due to regional taste. One Palestinian musician told me he could
tell where a musician was
from within 20 miles by intonation and ornament. 24 ET began as a
theoretical proposition and
works well in cross over areas. Although they mention the use of 24 ET
and yamaha uses this for it
instruments in this neck of the woods, the records show its use is very
very limited. You might
like to look at The music of the Arabs by Touma. Rod Poole also has
quite a bit of writings by
persians blasting 24 ET . I have yet to see any that does the opposite.

-- Kraig Grady
North American Embassy of Anaphoria island
http://www.anaphoria.com

The Wandering Medicine Show
Wed. 8-9 KXLU 88.9 fm

Hi Kraig -- I'm surprised to see you leaning on Western academia for
support of your contentions! How odd!

--- In tuning@y..., Kraig Grady <kraiggrady@a...> wrote:

> Rod Poole also has
> quite a bit of writings by
> persians blasting 24 ET .

Persian music is a whole other animal. Their intervals are clearly
very far from 24-tET. Why did you change the subject line to "Persian
tuning", you canniving little devil! But in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria,
Iraq, and the Arabian Peninsula, the maqamat that are used are
_roughly_ subsets of 24-tET. Note that I say _roughly_. The 17-tone
medieval Arabic tuning, however, fits none of these cultures at the
present time (not sure if you were saying they do with your
references to Western academic institutions -- you weren't clear).