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Article about Bill Sethares in NZZ folio

🔗hstraub64 <straub@datacomm.ch>

4/22/2008 12:25:02 AM

http://www.nzzfolio.ch/www/d80bd71b-b264-4db4-afd0-
277884b93470/showarticle/4b2eff28-828c-4458-ae5a-e848965b6cd4.aspx

Big honor: Bill Sethares's book is called "Perhaps the most important
musicological work since Pythagoras"...
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Hans Straub

🔗Graham Breed <gbreed@gmail.com>

4/22/2008 3:35:04 AM

hstraub64 wrote:
> http://www.nzzfolio.ch/www/d80bd71b-b264-4db4-afd0-
> 277884b93470/showarticle/4b2eff28-828c-4458-ae5a-e848965b6cd4.aspx
> > Big honor: Bill Sethares's book is called "Perhaps the most important > musicological work since Pythagoras"...

After struggling through it in German, I noticed the link at the top for the original English version:

http://www.nzzfolio.ch/www/d80bd71b-b264-4db4-afd0-277884b93470/showarticle/c2dd2d93-cfb9-442c-9ef2-58b5241f6da1.aspx

What it says is "TTSS has probably become the most influential work in the science of music since Pythagoras." Not bad for a book that was deemed unsuitable for an interlibrary loan.

Graham