Re: [tuning] Re: resolution of 72-tET/JI-Joseph

In a message dated 6/19/02 8:58:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time, jpehrson@rcn.com
writes:

> ***Hi Johnny,
>
> Well, yes, but your previous statement said very clearly that 72-tET
> was a *compromise* and could never aspire to *greatness* as somehow
> Just could!
>
> Can you imagine how that would make me feel as a composer writing now
> almost exclusively in 72??
>

Then you are still missing my point. That I do not compose in straight just
intonation should be your first hint. Just is a point of reference that
affects everything in music on some level. How it is used or compromised has
a huge bearing on its effect. I have tried to point out this effect in words
to little avail, alas. I am not saying it is greater than anything else,
only that it is an undeniable essence of microtonality.

> Not too good... but I'm over it now, and busy composing in 72 as even
> Kraig says is OK...

Your brief somersault is often much worse in an unsafe environment, like most
music departments of the past. Right now, microtonality is more in vogue in
academia than music composition as a genuine field or career. (at least as
you and I usually mean it.)

best, Johnny

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

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>>
> > ***Hi Johnny,
> >
> > Well, yes, but your previous statement said very clearly that 72-
tET was a *compromise* and could never aspire to *greatness* as
somehow
> > Just could!
> >
> > Can you imagine how that would make me feel as a composer writing
now almost exclusively in 72??
> >
>
> Then you are still missing my point. That I do not compose in
straight just intonation should be your first hint. Just is a point
of reference that affects everything in music on some level. How it
is used or compromised has a huge bearing on its effect. I have
tried to point out this effect in words to little avail, alas. I am
not saying it is greater than anything else, only that it is an
undeniable essence of microtonality.
>

***Right... so it was basically a misunderstanding. You weren't
really dumping on 72 as a *tuning* per se, but only pointing out the
special attributes of Just...

thanks

JP