"Microtonal"

>From: Joe Monzo <monz@juno.com>
>
>
>> [me, monz, to John Link]
>>> John, since you're a microtonal (xenharmonic?) vocalist,
>
>> [John Link, TD 460.8]
>> I've never said or thought either of those things. I just do
>> my best to sing in tune.
>
>
>Well, OK, sorry to label you without your approval... but
>as far as anyone on this List (except maybe Johnny Reinhard)
>is concerned, your efforts to 'sing in tune' automatically
>make you a microtonalist/xenharmonicist/whatever-you-call-it,
>because you *sure* aren't singing in 12-tET/12-EDO!

No offense taken. I took your post as an opportunity to express my views
about the terms. For myself, I don't find the terms "microtonal" or
"xenharmonic" particularly useful, in that I've been involved in plenty of
discussions about music both on this list and elsewhere (on the phone, or
even face to face), and have never used the terms except to ask what they
mean. I'm open to changing my mind on this issue if anyone can show how the
terms are needed in a lerger theoretical framework. The responses on this
list to my questions about the meaning of the terms suggests that there is
no consensus. With regard to Johnny Reinhard, I thought he said that ALL
music is microtonal.

Back to work on the CD...

John Link

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