Microtonal "recycling"

Hello, there, everyone, and given that "moderns rejoice in brevity,"
as a treatise from around 1300 instructs me, I'll strive for once to
follow this saying in proposing a few postulates on "recycling":

(1) A useful and elegant notation need not attempt to
represent every beautiful tuning system;

(2) A beautiful tuning system need not be adequately
represented by every useful and elegant notation;

(3) Since, as Henry James has said, life is "all
inclusion and confusion," and art "all
discrimination and selection," we all make
choices, explicit or implicit; one musical
style's "garbage" may be another's cornerstone;

(4) Therefore, we might respond most nobly by seeking
to understand each other's choices -- and, if so
inclined, taking them as a creative incitement to
make beautiful music in "rejected" tunings, thus
recycling the "garbage" in most fertile fashion.

Most appreciatively,

Margo Schulter
mschulter@value.net

--- In tuning@y..., "M. Schulter" <MSCHULTER@V...> wrote:

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> Hello, there, everyone, and given that "moderns rejoice in brevity,"
> as a treatise from around 1300 instructs me, I'll strive for once to
> follow this saying in proposing a few postulates on "recycling":
>
> (1) A useful and elegant notation need not attempt to
> represent every beautiful tuning system;
>
> (2) A beautiful tuning system need not be adequately
> represented by every useful and elegant notation;
>
> (3) Since, as Henry James has said, life is "all
> inclusion and confusion," and art "all
> discrimination and selection," we all make
> choices, explicit or implicit; one musical
> style's "garbage" may be another's cornerstone;
>
> (4) Therefore, we might respond most nobly by seeking
> to understand each other's choices -- and, if so
> inclined, taking them as a creative incitement to
> make beautiful music in "rejected" tunings, thus
> recycling the "garbage" in most fertile fashion.
>
> Most appreciatively,
>
> Margo Schulter
> mschulter@v...

****This is funny, because, today, Mayor Bloomberg announced that
there would no longer be "recycling..." So, it's basically, now, all
the same: Garbage in, Garbage out... :)

JP