Re: [tuning] Re: response to Mark and Julia and Bach

I compose in just intonation and out. I make up new tunings and combine them
all the time. Perhaps under the rubric of polymicrotonality, I wrote of my
approach to composition and it was presented to Perspectives of New Music by
editor Carol Baron with the aim of having it published. It was refused
because it was centered only on my music. Maybe this is why Julia has not
heard of other theories of composition that can support bother her way of
composing and Kraig's.

I think the heat that has been raging (almost like a religious war) is
actually indicative of myopia on a huge level. Sorry if this offends. Pure
just intonation has its great place in music. But since Thales, irrational
numbers have been part of the expression of music. Just as the brain has 2
hemispheres, we embody both.

What many on this list have missed is that Bach was in a tuning with 4
different major thirds, none of which were just or a match for ET. And it is
great for his music. I announce here that I will send out a single of the
AFMM performance of Brandenburg #4 in Werckmeister III from April 30. 2002's
MicroFest for $11.

And all those world musics in so many gorgeous combinations. It seems that
every time a theorist (and some part-theorists) write a theory book or
article, the first priority is to their own particular theory. If it
includes a greater population, so much the better. But it cannot, and never
does, include everybody concerned. Hindemith did this. Piston did this.
Doty did this. There are few exceptions. Mandelbaum is more tolerant in his
theory than he is in his own music.

I feel that this whole argument has just passed me by. And yet I compose
real music. I guess the theory just can't follow it.

best, Johnny Reinhard
AFMM
318 East 70th St., #5FW
New York, NY 10021

--- In tuning@y..., Afmmjr@a... wrote:

> I think the heat that has been raging (almost like a religious war)
is
> actually indicative of myopia on a huge level.

perhaps music is the only force beautiful enough to induce such
extreme myopia. narcissism of a sort? i spoke to this phenomenon a
bit in this post, in case you missed it and would like to comment,
johnny:

/tuning/topicId_37235.html#37339

Hello Johnny!
On the question of Myopia, i have not proposed that anyone use any tuning system. I merely
state and defend what it is i do. Each artist has their own directions and points of light they
are attracted to and the materials that work for one will not work for others. Personally i would
feel a bit crowded if every one did JI (not that this is necessarily what it i is i do). I am
sorry that they failed to recognize that there are others who works along Parallel lines- i
imagine dan Sterns might fit this.
You rightly point out that there are quite a few other approaches to tuning that are never
mentioned. Any of the MOS formed by single generators, any of the fibonacci or noble number scales
, just to add two to yours. Also to bring up world music in that when we look at these scales we
see little JI and just as little ET. What we need if anything is even more approaches than what we
have!

NP Mixtur-Stockhausen

Afmmjr@aol.com wrote:

> I compose in just intonation and out. I make up new tunings and combine them
> all the time. Perhaps under the rubric of polymicrotonality, I wrote of my
> approach to composition and it was presented to Perspectives of New Music by
> editor Carol Baron with the aim of having it published. It was refused
> because it was centered only on my music. Maybe this is why Julia has not
> heard of other theories of composition that can support bother her way of
> composing and Kraig's.
>
> I think the heat that has been raging (almost like a religious war) is
> actually indicative of myopia on a huge level. Sorry if this offends. Pure
> just intonation has its great place in music. But since Thales, irrational
> numbers have been part of the expression of music. Just as the brain has 2
> hemispheres, we embody both.
>
> What many on this list have missed is that Bach was in a tuning with 4
> different major thirds, none of which were just or a match for ET. And it is
> great for his music. I announce here that I will send out a single of the
> AFMM performance of Brandenburg #4 in Werckmeister III from April 30. 2002's
> MicroFest for $11.
>
> And all those world musics in so many gorgeous combinations. It seems that
> every time a theorist (and some part-theorists) write a theory book or
> article, the first priority is to their own particular theory. If it
> includes a greater population, so much the better. But it cannot, and never
> does, include everybody concerned. Hindemith did this. Piston did this.
> Doty did this. There are few exceptions. Mandelbaum is more tolerant in his
> theory than he is in his own music.
>
> I feel that this whole argument has just passed me by. And yet I compose
> real music. I guess the theory just can't follow it.
>
> best, Johnny Reinhard
> AFMM
> 318 East 70th St., #5FW
> New York, NY 10021
>
>

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

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