Re: [metatuning] 3(+?) tuning lists

Hi Gerry, and welcome to the tuning list(s)!

> From: Gerry Platt <gp@dobedo.prestel.co.uk>
> To: <metatuning@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 12:38 PM
> Subject: [metatuning] 3(+?) tuning lists
>
>
> 2. I've always been interested in the relationship between music and
> mathamatics,

If you look at the archives of the "big tuning list"
</tuning> from around April 2001,
you'll read all about the birth-pangs of the many offshoot
lists, which all have a more tight focus. Some of the main ones:

metatuning - stuff that's basically off-topic for any of
the other tuning-lists but we like to talk about anyway

tuning-math - for those who really like to get dirty
with the math

crazy-music - with an emphasis on *practical* microtonal
music-making, unmoderated

MakeMicroMusic - moderated version of the above

spiritual_tuning - emphasis on non-physical aspects of
making microtonal music

There are several others which are even more specialized,
but that should be good for a start. If you're really seriously
interested in the mathematical aspect, you should definitely
join tuning-math.

Now, about your interest in microtonality in the blues:

> ... beyond this the issues that I would like to discuss on the
> appropriate lists are:
>
> i). African tunings: I grew up in Africa and love the music. I recently
> read: 'Africa and the Blues' by Gerhard Kubik (University Press of
> Mississipi. ISBN 1-57806-146-6). I don't know if this has been discussed
> here but would like to know which yahoo list is the appropriate one on
> which to initiate such a discussion?
> (See quote at end of this mail).
>
> ...
>
> "The ideal harmonics-based pentatonic system over a single fundamental
> incorperates tones representing partials 4 to 9. Characteristically, it
> extends beyond the scope of a single octave, with its lower component
> forming a tetratonic pattern. From bottom to top the scale goes like this:
> 0 cents / 386 cents / 702 cents /969 cents / 1200 cents / 1404 cents. This
> scale, if sung in descending order, sounds stunningly blues-like, though
> this is hardly the whole storey".
> Gerhard Kubik.
>
> (I've slightly edited the above. GP.).

I have a webpage which I believe is the first rigorous analysis
of the intonation of a classic blues performance: the vocals of
Robert Johnson's "Drunken Hearted Man"
http://www.ixpres.com/interval/monzo/rjohnson/drunken.htm

You should be able to get something out of that.

-monz

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