Re: [microsound] another article

[Richard Zvonar <zvonar@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 3:55 PM -0400 8/8/03, Richard Linville wrote:
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3129145.stm
>
>This time more closely related to microsound type things.

This article skips over the very large practice of microtonal music 
and the role of non-12-tone tunings worldwide. Though there is an 
assertion that the 12-tone scale derives from speech patterns there 
are no specific examples of this. Considering that Harry Partch's 
interest in microtonality came from his research in prosody and the 
microtonal in speech it seems that Professor Schwartz and his 
colleagues may have started with a premise of 12 tones being a 
natural phenomenon and then fudged their data to support it.
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