jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow) (07/26/83)
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The suggestion that a particular tempered scale (not 12 notes) would sound
"horrible" just because it doesn't match the LIMITED system which westerners
have used for a few centuries is, at best, narrow-minded.
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I agree. However, it is silly to tweak the western system in particular
for being "limited". All systems are limited. And by the creativity of the
artists that use them, not by the number of notes their scale may have.
It is ironic that a certain segment of western composers seems to believe
that the future of western music lies in the east, when many of them refuse
to admit the beauty and potential of western 12-tone music and its many adopted
children. This is just another example of the grass seeming greener on the
other side of the hill, combined with the fact that mediocrity always tries
to find something to follow rather than create its own path.
- Jeff Winslow