Re : missed by the unimaginative (Ives on tuning)

(Johnny Reinhard:)

> 1. There are only 2 tunings (or pure tuning models) in Western art music:
> just intonation and the spiral of fiths. These provide the conceptual models
> of intonation necessary to composing. Temperaments are designed to get a
> combination effect, and to achieve modulation. Temperaments tend to favor
> one tuning or another.

Johnny, does that mean that quartertone music doesn't exist? It's definitely
not derived from a spiral of fifths. Should it then be considered as just
intonation? True, the 11/8 interval is almost perfect, but all the other
intervals, even if some tend to the 11-limit are really too far *out of
tune* to pretend for some just intonation.

> 4. Both AFMM performances of the "Universe Symphony" and the "Unanswered
> Question" demonstrated the value of this tuning orientation in the
> performance. The recent "Unanswered Question" had more universal approval
> than any other performance of any single piece of any single composer since
> the AFMM began in 1981.

Congratulations. I missed something!

Wim Hoogewerf

Wim: quartertones are a temperament. I said there are 2 tunings and that
each temperament favors either the spiral of fifths or the overtone-derived
just intonation.

Quartertones are, like 12-tone equal temperament, more pythagorean leaning.
It is really just a second circle of tempered fifths, similar to having 2
whole-tone scales.

Johnny Reinhard
AFMM