Tuning List Forum, a university without boundaries!

At 10:19 8/4/99 -0400, you wrote:
>From: Joe Monzo <monz@juno.com>
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>Can't we all just get along?
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Selam (greetings in Turkish) to the TuningList community.

I fully endorse Joe Monzo's brief but powerful comment above. I also am in
complete agreement with those who stated how much theory they have learned
on this forum. I, for one, am being educated from ground zero up (I have no
training in music or music theory) while doing my 'thing' on musical scales
viewed as 'distributions' and reporting to this forum whenever there is a
break through. I have read with interest every single post on this list
since my inception many months ago and saved many such posts for future
reference. This forum has been an extremely efficient 'school' for me to
learn about the fine points of music theory at my own pedestrian pace.

Ladies and gentlemen! I plead with each and every one of you! Please do not
abandon ship at its most productive and flourishing stage. Seperatism, in
my humble judgement, is a non-solution. Every post to this list is a
significant contribution in its own way to music and music theory. The
useful 'fall-out' may not be immediate, and there may be some delay in the
absorption process.
From some of the comments I have been reading lately, it appears this forum
might be taking up the 'slack' between what is offered at music schools and
the way things really are in the musical universe of performing
musicians.In my personal experience based on my own research, the
correlation between what is currently being taught at conservatories of
Turkish music in Turkey and the actual music performed by indisputable
master musicians is 'weak', to put it mildly.

Let us join in for many endless debates and exchange of ideas/information
on this forum. Keep up the spirit you all.
Dr. Can Akkoc
Alabama School of Mathematics and Science
1255 Dauphin Street
Mobile, AL 36604
USA

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