On Mar 4, 2009, at 10:13 AM, Fred Sturm wrote: > I think this notion is the result of Mr. Jorgensen's work As long as I am criticizing Jorgensen, I should also mention that his work is largely to blame for what is in the "Historical tunings" menu of RCT (and much of Verituner - Verituner has a considerably expanded list, which is both good and bad. I suppose of SAT III and IV and perhaps Tunelab as well, though I don't know those platforms). Well, I guess the blame really lies with those who were impressed with the size and the name of his "Big Red" book, and thought it must be authoritative. The problem being that there are all sorts of things that really shouldn't be there (little to no historical authenticity or practical applicability), and there are holes where basic things should be. Where is Werckmeister III in RCT? Not to be found. Instead we have things like "John Marsh 4/25 syntonic," "WIlliam Trans'ur" and both "theoretical" and "equal-beating" versions of "John Preston." These are worthy at most of being in an obscure footnote somewhere. It is really high time we clear the underbrush away, remove the excess and misleading verbiage, and make this part of the profession more accessible, and better founded on actual, reliable scholarship. Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico fssturm at unm.edu
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