This commentary discusses the target paper Microtonal Analysis of "Blue Notes" and the Blues Scale by Court B. Cutting. Overall, the paper is an interesting and very valuable attempt to shed light on the intonation practice of blue notes in traditional blues music, using an empirical approach which is based in modern acoustic measurements. While the approach and empirical results presented in the target paper undoubtedly have their merits, the paper nonetheless raises some methodological and conceptual questions, leading to some further thoughts that are discussed in this commentary. The issues raised in this commentary might serve as guidance for future empirical investigations into the nature and usage of blue notes.

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B法院裁定对“蓝调音符”和布鲁斯音阶进行微调分析的评论

这篇评论讨论了目标论文“蓝调”的微调分析和Court B. Cutting的蓝调量表。总体而言，本文是一种有趣且非常有价值的尝试，它使用了一种基于现代声学测量的经验方法，来揭示传统布鲁斯音乐中蓝调的语调实践。尽管目标文件中提出的方法和实证结果无疑具有其优点，但该文件仍提出了一些方法论和概念性问题，从而导致了本评论中讨论的更多想法。本评论中提出的问题可能会为将来对蓝调票据的性质和用法进行实证研究提供指导。