[CAUT] professor tuning variables

[Ed Sutton]

We are in the first stages of planning a Journal "Temperament" issue which 
revisits temperaments in the context of the scholarship of the last 15 
years, with the intention of producing a reference document that would have 
long-term value.
Ed Sutton

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Sturm" <fssturm at unm.edu>
To: <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2009 2:53 PM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] professor tuning variables


> 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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