On Mar 7, 2009, at 11:55 AM, reggaepass at aol.com wrote: > Hi Fred, > > Can I get a discount for an advance, quantity order of your yet-to- > be-released work on this subject? Seriously, please consider > writing for publication, either by yourself or in collaboration with > someone else as up-to-date on the available scholarship concerning > temperaments. (Or we could go with plan "B" and just compile > excerpts from the last few months of CAUT posts on related matters: > The subject would be temperaments, but it would read like the "point/ > counterpoint" of a talk show, transcribed <G>.) Well, this has been a kind of "side interest" for me over the years, and not one I had put enough research into to consider myself an expert. But in thinking about our (caut committee) on-going project to create a "CAUT credential" and to base it on a series of intensive training sessions (on the order of 3-day or so "academies" - this is the model we are working on at the moment, and it may happen fairly soon), I've looked at the subject again: If we are to include historical tunings, who would teach it, and what resources would we use? So I've been nosing around, and have done quite a bit of reading. Recently I bought Claudio di Veroli's e-book, and I sent him a couple suggestions in the way of improving style and language (English is his third language, after Spanish and Italian), and I ended up proof- reading the whole thing ahead of his "Version 2" (which was just posted). So I guess I have kind of made myself into an "almost expert," and I have given a good bit of thought to putting together a study guide. It seems like a void that needs to be filled. I would leave out most of the math, which is covered quite well by Thomas Donahue and di Veroli, and just give a broad historical overview with references, and with a good grounding in the actual words of sources (what Pietro Aron wrote about 1/4 meantone, what Jean Denis wrote about mean tone with somewhat expanded thirds, what Rousseau wrote about French "Ordinaire," what Werckmeister said about #III). We'll see. I _do_ have far too many projects going at any given time, including a solo recital of works by Villa-Lobos in a week. Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico fssturm at unm.edu
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