Re: [Harp-L] positions and modes

Joe and Cass Leone <leone@xxxxxxxx> · Fri, 1 Apr 2005 19:07:05 -0500

On Apr 1, 2005, at 3:42 PM, Chris Michalek wrote:

Yes.

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From: timshee@xxxxxxxxx
To: Chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [Harp-L] positions and modes
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 12:40:51 -0800 (PST)

When you are speaking about 72 note scales, do you
mean using microtones outside of western harmony?

Chris Michalek

 Yeaaaah, but has anyone really ever made any sense out of some of 
those types of music? A lot of them seem to be 'locked' into their own 
country and in some cases region. Hindu ragas (for example) haven't 
exactly taken over the world. :) I don't hear too much stuff from 
Zamboanga, or Beatyurazzoff Uzbekistan either. :)

Seriously, I have listened to some Greek music where the notes seemed 
to 'blur' into each other. Not being up on this sort of thing, I guess 
what I was hearing were microtones? When a small child living in 
Europe, I used to listen to a LOT of stuff out of Wien, Praha, & 
Buda-Pesht. Though I loved that stuff, I could never understand the 
need to CONSTANTLY 'milk' notes into each other. I was so uninformed I 
thought the violin players were just making those sounds because they 
weren't hitting the notes cleanly and inasmuch as there are no frets on 
a violin, I guess I assumed that it was a gypsy thing done by people 
who had no formal musical education, and played something taught 
(aurally) by rote.

 Boy, I guess I was wrong? (what ELSE is new :)
the ghost of smokey-joe