Re:vor Darreg quote

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Joseph!
Maybe what is really important is that a "scale" with all it properties works. Equal being
only one set of scales on a continuum of MOS and/or similar structures. Does this tell us anything
but that certain structures work, i am not sure. Regardless if you gave a group of people on an
island 11 ET or 13 ET on tunable tubes and you came back in 100 years would they still be playing
that or would they have been adjusted. Or give them the option of 12 and make them pick after the
same period. I would be ahistorical to assume that such scales were arbitrary. Possible starting
points but not the place by any means.

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> From: "Joseph Pehrson" <jpehrson@rcn.com>
> Subject: Ivor Darreg quote
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> I like this quote from Darreg's interview with Brian McLaren
> (Xenharmonikon 14):
>
> Darreg: "As I said before, there are no bad scales. This astonished
> even me. I thought, on being confronted with scales like 13 and 11
> and 23, that I would have mental blocks or would have to skip over
> them with an apologetic short piece and hurry on to the next tuning
> before the listeners get too annoyed. And yet they all work!
> Absolutely amazed me."
>
> J. Pehrson

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--- In tuning@y..., Kraig Grady <kraiggrady@a...> wrote:

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>
> Joseph!
> Maybe what is really important is that a "scale" with all it
properties works. Equal being
> only one set of scales on a continuum of MOS and/or similar
structures. Does this tell us anything
> but that certain structures work, i am not sure. Regardless if you
gave a group of people on an
> island 11 ET or 13 ET on tunable tubes and you came back in 100
years would they still be playing
> that or would they have been adjusted. Or give them the option of
12 and make them pick after the
> same period. I would be ahistorical to assume that such scales were
arbitrary. Possible starting
> points but not the place by any means.
>

***Hmmm... Thanks, Kraig for your interesting contribution to this
thread... Maybe Darreg *overstates* his case here.

Possibly he's just a good enough composer to make something out of
practically *anything* but I agree it doesn't necessarily mean that
all scales are as suitable for music making...

Something to think about, anyway...

best,

JP