Bill Benzon wrote:
>I think you're exaggerating this bias toward simplistic duality. The
minor/sad
>major/happy duality you mention certainly does do justice to how those
scales
>have been and are used in Western music.
>You might want to check out the work of Manfred Clynes for a rather
different
>approach to emotion in music:
Well, I have a bias toward exaggeration;-) My comment about the scales,
though, still stays and thanks for conceding it. The issue of "what
objective value" or "what effects besides emotional ones, however
sophisticated" is what I am really aiming for, besides the notion of "how
does microtonality as opposed to well-tempering affect those two topics."
For now, anyway...
Clynes' work looks interesting, thanks for the pointer. It certainly seems
that he may have opened up fertile and interesting ground in the limited,
well-tempered, happy/sad field;-)...
GP
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