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Rustom Mody wrote:

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> On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 1:59 PM, david  > wrote:

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>     The real interesting measure of perception/influence of music on

>     thought might require use of functional MRI scanning, which can show

>     the actual electrical activity in the brain.

>

> Yes I forgot to mention brain-wave patterns. Ultimately any such

> 'objective-measure' may miss some more subtle influence.  Its just that

> a crude idea may be better than no idea.

Functional MRI is much more than "brain-wave patterns". Functional MRI

shows the actual nerve firings in the brain, flowing from cell to cell

to cell. It provides a very detailed record of brain activity.
The difficulty at this stage of functional MRI development is mapping

what it shows to thoughts, to what it means.
>         Coming back to Bach: If he was not interested in tunings he

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>         would not have written the Well Tempered clavier.

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>         If he was interested in promoting equal temperament he would

>         have called it the Equal tempered Clavier

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>     There were plenty of tunings in Bach's day. If music over the

>     centuries had NOT settled on a standard tuning that essentially

>     displaced the others, would modern music have been experimenting

>     with alternative tunings?

>

> I dont understand...

>

> As far as I can see(hear?) today's technology makes possible musical

> experiments (including but not limited to tuning) that could not have

> been dreamt of 20 years ago -- leave aside Bach

Yes, music technology lets us do things that previous musical eras

couldn't even dream about.
What I meant was: if western music had never settled on a standard

tuning, and composers routinely worked with a wide variety of differing

tunings, would there have been as much urge to invent new tunings? I

think part of the urge to devise new tunings arose because using a

tuning other than standard tuning was DIFFERENT.
--

David

gnome@hawaii.rr.com

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