Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 12:53:54 -0500
From: Kevin Goetz <goetks21-AT-snyoneva.cc.oneonta.edu>
Subject: Re: PLC: A Music Theory



> So how do you deal, from within those perameters, with charge that this is
>Eurocentric? 


Reg,

Thank you for answering, and I do plan to read up on a number of the
sources which you have listed (esp. the Fux, which I shall read with a
tremendous amount of curiosity, as I hadn't known the were such dictum from
the church), but I have to echo George'sd questions again.  Are there no
musical studies which deal with the many-varied Raga structures of (some)
Indian music, or with the complex tonalities of (some) tibetan or african
musics?  Is there also an element of music theory which is removed from
history (we spoke about the 'color' of tones, briefly, on another list)? Or
is the theory in this field taken care of by composers in their compositions?

Apologies for the questions right now. I do promise to actually pick up the
books, and if any will seem silly at that point, feel free to ignore them.

Thanks again,


Kevin Goetz
SUNY Oneonta
goetks21-AT-snyoneva.cc.oneonta.edu


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