On Feb 10, 2007, at 10:27 PM, Roman Turovsky wrote:

> It already came up on the tonalist composers' list a month ago.  It  
> is retromicrotonalists' bible (the most irritating breed who claim  
> that serialism is a natural consequence of Equal Temperament etc),  
> tendentious in the extreme apparently.

Not at all. I think the book lays out the info in a non-preachy way.  
The numbers don't lie and those of us who play fretted or keyboard  
instruments make a compromise of one type or another with our tuning  
decisions. It's just that most modern musicians don't understand the  
choice they have made (equal temperment). There really is something  
about a major chord with a perfect third. It is audible.

DS



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