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65 notes?

The article says Johnston: "has come to advocate a tonal system of 65 notes to the octave" - could we be more specific, please? Exactly what is this tuning and what are its intervals?

-- Yahya Abdal-Aziz, 8 December 2005

Where does it say that? I don't see it. If anything should be said about this, I don't think a "number-of-tones-per-octave" description does justice to his approach, and I would be happy to write something else. Namrevlis 20:29, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

See Help:Page history. We now have material which probably adequately addresses the motivations of approach and its resulting "potential" number of notes. Hyacinth (talk) 22:42, 28 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Georgia

Re: Georgia: I'm not sure what the goals of "WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)" are, but Ben Johnston left Macon, GA as a young man and in not particularly associated with that state. He lived the majority of his adult life in Champaign, IL and Rocky Mount, NC, and is most associated with the University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana. Namrevlis 02:31, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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So are we assuming that Johnston experienced immediate ease in using just intonation compositionally, that he didn't work with John Cage, and string quartets did not plan to record his full quartets? Or do those details not matter? Hyacinth (talk) 06:47, 30 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Look, these claims were mostly challenged in November 2007 (one claim only since July 2008). For heaven's sake, how long should it take to find sources for these claims? I haven't been successful, and I am a professional, with specialties in this area. Oh, and it is not "string quartets" that are alleged to have intended to record all of his quartets but, rather, the Kronos Quartet. These details matter very much—if they are factual. If not, they should not last ten seconds in a biography of a living person.—Jerome Kohl (talk) 07:29, 30 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Lamparter, Wolfram. 2008. [untitled article]. Newsletter

This newsletter is entirely in German including the title, Newsletter, which is one of those words that translates intact from English into another language, similar to the word club or weekend in French.Brek (talk) 03:39, 22 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

OK, good, that's all that matters. However, "Newsletter" does have a German equivalent, Rundschreiben, even if the entirely English word "Newsletter" may be borrowed into that language (just as "cuisine" or "kaputt" are sometimes used in English for "nosh" or "knackered", respectively). It does seem odd that an article on page 1 lacks a title, though.—Jerome Kohl (talk) 06:19, 22 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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