On 4/11/06, Mathieu Bouchard matju@artengine.ca wrote:
On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
Lots of Western-centric musicians boast that the microtonality of more primitive traditions could only have worked in single-line melody, and that Western music, with its more sophisticated tonalities, made these tunings obsolete. I believe that, with computers, the harmonic possibilities opened up by other tunings could dwarf those of 12-tET.
Who hears the difference?
I think that lots of people are dwarfing the possibilities of all of the above just by singing out-of-tune, daily.
I hear the difference in Toby Twining's Requiem: http://www.justintonation.net/soundfiles.html#twining It's not so easy to hear on piano: they are designed to mask already being out of tune. I'm not just talking about slightly different tunings of the 12-tone scale.
-Chuckk