starting out in Just Intonation

Paolo, TD. 604

> Kraig and Paul, I thank your for your recommendations of these books.
> Somebody else on this list recommended Just Intonation Primer as the
> starting point, but obviously it has turned out to be the _wrong_ book for
> reasons we have just covered.
>
Paul Erlich, TD 605:

> Joe, what you may have missed is that Paolo was asking what he should read
> while he was waiting for his Doty to come in. . . .
>
Also Paul Erlick, TD 605:

> Yasser's book is of course not a useful work for learning about Just
> Intonation. But I agree that one needs many different angles, so one should
> be aware of some of the difficulties that come up when using Just Intonation
> for certain styles of music -- Blackwood's _Structure of Recognizable
> Diatonic Tunings_ nicely lays some of those out.
>
>

It rather looks to me like Paolo was giving up on the Doty as a
"starting place.." However, it seems you agree, Paul, that the Doty is
INDEED a good place to start... of course reading the Helmholtz and
Partch, too! The Blackwood treatise might be a bit much for the
absolute beginner, don't you think? I found the mathematics rather
arcane... although I realize with your own math background it probably
isn't much of a problem...

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Joseph Pehrson

>It rather looks to me like Paolo was giving up on the Doty as a
>"starting place.." However, it seems you agree, Paul, that the Doty is
>INDEED a good place to start... of course reading the Helmholtz and

A clarification here. What I _had_ given up on is any hope of ever
receiving the Doty book. It is impossible to start at a starting point if
that starting point is inaccessible to you due to nondelivery.

That said, I did exchange emails with (I think) Mr. Doty. He is now, I
guess, looking up my order.

Paolo