Re: [tuning] Digest Number 3793

In a message dated 12/6/2005 10:12:22 AM Eastern Standard Time,
tuning@yahoogroups.com writes:
I don't disagree that the music was played in 12EDO. What I disagree
with is the premise that the music content (and look how Schoenberg
notates in his scores) is 12EDO. It may be 'serial', but the
notation indicates the line of hearing being definitely in the
5limit, possibly even 7limit. Those composers who use the notation
mechanistically (Stockhausen) are much more 12EDO composers.

Somehow, this is a thread that comes up every so often, which Mr. Flavell has
encouraged.
The non-professional musicians try to imagine what it is like to hear an
exact interval that is not just, concluding they can never acquire their aims.

If musicians weren't targeting exact pitch relationships, then music would
not be the cherished bastion of rich pitch relationships that we all love.

all best in music, Johnny Reinhard

Thanks for the response, Johnny, but my
concrete experience with the new "toy" synthesizers
is what has been my inspiration, although I did
get a chance to play an $8K Korg synth at Guitar
Center recently which had the most beautiful
piano patch I've ever heard, and I ususally hate
the piano sound with a passion! :)

Bill Flavell

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Afmmjr@a... wrote:

>
> Somehow, this is a thread that comes up every so often, which Mr.
Flavell has
> encouraged.
> The non-professional musicians try to imagine what it is like to
hear an
> exact interval that is not just, concluding they can never acquire
their aims.
>
> If musicians weren't targeting exact pitch relationships, then
music would
> not be the cherished bastion of rich pitch relationships that we
all love.
>
> all best in music, Johnny Reinhard
>