The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #58162   Message #924627
Posted By: M.Ted
02-Apr-03 - 01:29 PM
Thread Name: Neuro-physiology and music structures
Subject: RE: Neuro-physiology and music structures
OK, I won't give up, at least not without making one last point--whatever scale system is used, the notes are just building blocks that have no particular meaning of their own--meaning comes from the way they are used by the composer and the performer--

I will even go out on a limb and say that every music system, offers the possibility of expressing the full range of the human experience in the right hands, and the possibility of expressing nothing in the wrong hands--

Comparing just intonation to equal temperament is a bit like comparing cursive script
to a word processor--yes, they are very different, but Shakespeare is still Shakespeare--