[NewMusic] microtones
Chris Broderick
elsuperfantastico at yahoo.com
Fri Jan 12 10:46:13 PST 2007
It's out in paper by Vintage. I know you aren't gonna
buy it from Amazon, but they got a little pic of the
front cover (which is one of those keyboards I
mentioned):
http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0375703306/ref=s9_asin_title_1/103-7750328-6790264
Enjoy!
-Chris
--- Phillip Greenlief <pgsaxo at pacbell.net> wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> On Behalf Of Chris Broderick
> Subject: Re: [NewMusic] microtones
>
> In the book Temperment by Stuart Isacoff (which is a
> good historical overview of the rise of equal
> temperment, if not terribly clear on the technical
> aspects of intonation) the author claims that
> outside
> of a harmonic framework that underpins what they do,
> singers will tend to go towards the pythagorean 5th
> rather than the equal tempered one. I dunno if I
> buy
> it, but that's what he sez...
>
>
> PG:
> Who published that book?
> (seriously...I might check it out)
>
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