source file: mills2.txt Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 08:05:58 -0400 Subject: Re: Temperaments: request for references From: Tom Parsons mcgeary thomas nelson wrote, > I would strongly suggest an underrecognized and appreciated article by > Rudolph Rasch, "Does 'Well-Tempered'Mean 'Equal Tempered'?" in "Bach, > Handel, Scarlatti: Tercentenary Essays, ed. by Peter Williams. Thanks; I just read it. My conclusion: it's O.K. to tune your harpsichord in equal temperament, after all. (If I'm playing someone other than Bach, the other composer will just have to yield priority... :-)) Rasch's paper illustrates a rule I've had for some years now: If you don't like a conclusion some historian of performance practice has reached, just wait. -- Tom Parsons | To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing D.T.L. | about intellectual issues; it means taking | pleasure in them. --Jacob Bronowski Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Thu, 21 Sep 1995 06:29 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id VAA25638; Wed, 20 Sep 1995 21:29:46 -0700 Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 21:29:46 -0700 Message-Id: <950921033833_71670.2576_HHB5-2@CompuServe.COM> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu