Announcement: Final draft of complete barbershop pitch tretise!

Hi everyone. I've posted a number of bits of things and various recordings over the years here and there along with some
vague statement that one day I might get to explaining it all... I was hesitant before to do the work of really preparing everything in a publicly accessible way, beyond my notes-to-self format of things.

Well, I'm now in the process of applying to grad schools (not set on where yet or exactly what, but I want to go toward music psychology, wish I had more coursework in that already, considering ethnomusicology, the whole issue of my academic direction is a complex subject...), and anyway I realized I needed a writing sample I would be proud to share in applications...

So I've finally finished my lengthy (but accessible) treatise on barbershop harmony and pitch issues. I'm debating how widely to
share the paper at this point as I await some feedback from some of the folks I've already sent it to. It's in a final-draft state, complete and well-edited, and I've got accompanying audio along with the paper's illustrations and more.
But there is still room for potential revision so I'm hoping to get some feedback before fully publishing it to the wider public.

Essentially I wrapped up all my understanding of barbershop tuning into this 82-page (double-spaced, including illustrations) paper based on a score analysis along with multiple sample audio files, with emphasis on presenting perceptual and practical issues for potential future empirical studies.

I will probably make some minor improvements as I hear feedback, but the current draft is pretty finalized, possibly truly final.
Anyone interested in reading it at this point, contact me and I'll send you the link!

In harmony,
Aaron Wolf

Two quick addendum comments:

1. oops, misspelling in title.

2. I intentionally wrote this treatise with a broad viewpoint. I use barbershop as the medium by which to discuss the nature of just intonation and pitch perception generally. My explicit intent is to have a paper of value to all musicians doing anything harmonic.

Cheers,
Aaron

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "quadrangle" <wolftune@...> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone. I've posted a number of bits of things and various recordings over the years here and there along with some
> vague statement that one day I might get to explaining it all... I was hesitant before to do the work of really preparing everything in a publicly accessible way, beyond my notes-to-self format of things.
>
> Well, I'm now in the process of applying to grad schools (not set on where yet or exactly what, but I want to go toward music psychology, wish I had more coursework in that already, considering ethnomusicology, the whole issue of my academic direction is a complex subject...), and anyway I realized I needed a writing sample I would be proud to share in applications...
>
> So I've finally finished my lengthy (but accessible) treatise on barbershop harmony and pitch issues. I'm debating how widely to
> share the paper at this point as I await some feedback from some of the folks I've already sent it to. It's in a final-draft state, complete and well-edited, and I've got accompanying audio along with the paper's illustrations and more.
> But there is still room for potential revision so I'm hoping to get some feedback before fully publishing it to the wider public.
>
> Essentially I wrapped up all my understanding of barbershop tuning into this 82-page (double-spaced, including illustrations) paper based on a score analysis along with multiple sample audio files, with emphasis on presenting perceptual and practical issues for potential future empirical studies.
>
> I will probably make some minor improvements as I hear feedback, but the current draft is pretty finalized, possibly truly final.
> Anyone interested in reading it at this point, contact me and I'll send you the link!
>
> In harmony,
> Aaron Wolf
>

Aaron Wolf wrote:

> So I've finally finished my lengthy (but accessible) treatise
> on barbershop harmony and pitch issues. I'm debating how widely
> to share the paper at this point as I await some feedback from
> some of the folks I've already sent it to.

Um, hello?
-Carl