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Elodie Lauten (elauten@yahoo.com), a New-York based composer, has made a short review of Donval ï¿½History of Musical Acousticsï¿½, Fuzeau publishing :
ï¿½http://www.sequenza21.com/lauten.htmlï¿½. She seems to have really studied the book, and if she is asked by a big magazine to make a deep and long review, I am sure she will accept. Douglas Keislar (doug@musclefish.com) editor and James Harley associate reviews editor (harleyja@mnstate.edu) of Computer Music Journal had asked me (and had recieved) a copy several months ago in order to publish a review. I am still waiting, you may remind them. I know that many canadians from Quebec have acquired this book, if you know any musicologist or microtonalist in Montreal please ask him (her). ï¿½s_donval@hotmail.frï¿½, ï¿½http://serge.donval.free.frï¿½

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Thanks for the info. Serge. I asked about reviews on the tuning list,
as I expected someone to respond and tell me that it was a great (or
similar) study of historical tunings,

and that I was being mean, obtuse, dumb? to expect anything else.

Unfortunately no-one responded in the fashion that I had anticipated,
and the whole thread wandered off into a relio/cultural semi-flame.

Another case of unexpected consequences;-)

Best wishes,.

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On 28 Apr 2007, at 10:09, serge donval wrote:

> tuning@yahoogroups.com
> Elodie Lauten (elauten@yahoo.com), a New-York based composer, has
> made a
> short review of Donval “History of Musical Acoustics”, Fuzeau
> publishing :
> “http://www.sequenza21.com/lauten.html”. She seems to have really
> studied
> the book, and if she is asked by a big magazine to make a deep and
> long
> review, I am sure she will accept. Douglas Keislar
> (doug@musclefish.com)
> editor and James Harley associate reviews editor
> (harleyja@mnstate.edu) of
> Computer Music Journal had asked me (and had recieved) a copy
> several months
> ago in order to publish a review. I am still waiting, you may
> remind them. I
> know that many canadians from Quebec have acquired this book, if
> you know
> any musicologist or microtonalist in Montreal please ask him (her).
> “s_donval@hotmail.fr”, “http://serge.donval.free.fr”
>
> __________________________________________________________
> Découvrez le Blog heroic Fantaisy d'Eragon!
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🔗J.A.Martin Salinas <tony@tonysalinas.com>

Nice free journal Serge!

I am not sure that many people in this list read Spanish so I took my
liberties
to translate the review (no proof reading so please excuse my errors):

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This book targets the study of Musical Acoustics and their evolution
throughout the history,
from Ancient Greece up to the twentieth century. History and
tradition had a great influence
in music, normally to the detriment of the basic acoustic rules.

Everybody has heard about the tempered gamma, where the diatonic
chromatic semitones
are the same. This gamma has been predominant for many centuries. Do
you know that the
tuning used by J.S. Bach wasn’t just the same than the one used
nowadays?

And the great question, Do you all know…, that any music, european-
occidental, arabic-oriental,
Chinese, Indian, etc., are they all based on the same theory, thepopular ‘Circle of Fifths’,
… which goes back to Mesopotamia?

The explanations and answers to these questions are dealt with in
this book with arguments
and references.

Out of the 20 chapters of this book, the first 4 chapters are on
acoustics. The following chapters
explain temperaments (where the historic elements are very useful
towards its understanding),
consonance, chords, modes, etc. One chapter is dedicated to the
tuning schemes of more than 12 tones.
The twentieth century is covered by a substantial part of the book:
tonality, serialism, microtonality,
electroacoustics, timbre, and electronic music. In addition to this,
the non-european modes that
were first introduced to Europe through Bartok almost a century ago,
which are a great hope for the future.

This treatise is written for a wide variety of readers: simply
readers and history lovers,
Conservatory students and teachers, musicology and music technology
students.
Everybody will find this book’s ideas developed by an author with a
background in physics
and mathematics (PhD in Physics and CNRS thesis prize in 1987), plus
in music (Conservatory
diploma in 1993 as a pianist and composer), which justifies such a
wide multidisciplinary culture,
which the reader will be aware of.

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I doubt Mesopotamia was the origin ... how about chinese ancient
theorists?

Has anybody in this list read the microtonality section of this book?
I hope the author is on this list and can answer to us!!!

Tony Salinas

On 2007/06/25, at 2:31, serge donval wrote:

> Review of “Histoire de l’Acoustique Musicale”, in spanish :
> “https://www.european-acoustics.org/EAASocieties/Spain-SEA/
> documents/RevistaAcustica_2007_38_1-2.pdf”,
> pp 52-53.
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