H. Wiley Hitchcock died, and terms

The New York Times' Anthony Tommasini ended his obit on H. Wiley Hitchcock
in a way that lends something to all this breast beating on the List about the
term "microtonal" and whether one wants to associate fully with it:

"Mr. Hitchcock was a gregarious professor with a refreshingly blunt approach
to scholarship. Asked in the 1986 interview about how in editing the
Ameri-Grove he had handled disputed words and labels, for example, jazz, a term
that many jazz musicians have found patronizing, Mr. Hitchcock said:
"Schoenberg didn't like the word 'atonality' either, and Philip Glass doesn't like
'minimalism.' that's tough."

Wiley was former president of The Ives Society, a member of La Monte Young's
Mela Foundation. He was editor of the American Grove Dictionary of Music.

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I love it!

It's true, artists often don't want to be pinned down to terms which
are, ironically, the most useful and accurate way of understanding.

It's sort of like how Bill O'Reilly wants to get credibility as an
'independant' when he's a mouthpiece for neo-cons.

'Microtonality', take it or leave it, is probably the most understood
and popular term to describe what we do around here, and it's a shame
that people have shame around it's use.

-A.

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Afmmjr@... wrote:
>
> The New York Times' Anthony Tommasini ended his obit on H. Wiley
Hitchcock
> in a way that lends something to all this breast beating on the List
about the
> term "microtonal" and whether one wants to associate fully with it:
>
> "Mr. Hitchcock was a gregarious professor with a refreshingly blunt
approach
> to scholarship. Asked in the 1986 interview about how in editing the
> Ameri-Grove he had handled disputed words and labels, for example,
jazz, a term
> that many jazz musicians have found patronizing, Mr. Hitchcock said:
> "Schoenberg didn't like the word 'atonality' either, and Philip
Glass doesn't like
> 'minimalism.' that's tough."
>
> Wiley was former president of The Ives Society, a member of La Monte
Young's
> Mela Foundation. He was editor of the American Grove Dictionary of
Music.
>
>
>
> **************************************Check out AOL's list of 2007's
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> products.
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>