Second, I know of no just-tuning composers who would accept Werntz's imaginary "credo" (168) that "just intonation ...

Yes, we just-tuning composers have attacked the deficiencies of 12-equal (one complaint about equal temperaments that echoes Werntz is that they are an arbitrary, "scientific"--thus "inhuman"--way of producing musical intervals, themselves ipso facto "inhumanely" irrational), and there may be a natural impulse to counter-attack just tuning in response.

Leedy and I will have to agree to disagree about whether the historical examples of just intonation he cites constitute JI "taking hold," and about whether or not "we just-tuning composers" (in his words) have "attacked Schoenberg, Webern, Boulez, Babbitt and others." (Although on this last point I, too, might refer readers to David Doty's Just Intonation Network website, and recommend reading there the first chapter of his famous just Intonation Primer--especially the section titled "The End of Common Practice"--in addition to Mr.