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Re: [tuning] Digest Number 2108

🔗Mark Gould <mark.gould@argonet.co.uk>

6/18/2002 5:35:17 AM

So many composer/conductors are so heavily into theoretic processes that
are all 'mod 12', that anding on a triad may be acceptable, but allowing a
JI triad begs to question the theory that produced it. cf, Berg Violin
Concerto. Is it an ET triad required or is a JI 'justified'?

It is an interesting question: just because of the problems with commas,
and the keyboard, do we assume that a major triad is implicitly 'just' or
does the composer require a 'mistuning' caused by the temperament?

An interesting question...

>>Conductors that employ huge vibrato will always camouflage intent. But
>do
>you think a conductor can have no exact crystal clear concept of where the
>intonation should be? Doesn't Boulez know? Simply because it is
>expressionistly employed, without apparent rhyme or reason to you and
>others,
>it means there isn't any? Nope. I don't buy that.