Rustom Mody wrote:
On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 1:59 PM, david <gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
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
would not have written the Well Tempered clavier.
If he was interested in promoting equal temperament he would
have called it the Equal tempered Clavier
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
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