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Re: david doty's ji prim

🔗Carl Lumma <carl@lumma.org>

6/10/2002 11:19:26 PM

>The biggest bone of contention for me here is that I think Doty
>grossly glosses over how music was developing in the wider societal
>context of the arts... in the grand scheme of things, tuning was a
>moot point in the abandoning of common practice... modernism was going
>to happen, get a grip!

That's Doty's point. They gave up on approximating JI. The work
is way inflammatory, but not nearly incorrect.

-Carl