source file: mills2.txt Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 22:12:35 -0700 Subject: Re: Bach's tuning From: Paul Hahn On Wed, 27 Sep 1995, Aleksander Frosztega wrote: > On Tue, 26 Sep 1995 06:39:58 -0700 Johnny Reinhard > wrote: > >Mr. Frosztega represents a modern reincarnation of Mr. Marpurg it would > >seem. As a legend in his own mind he has deduced what Bach did by > >his interpretations of what happened after Bach. > > > >I believe he confuses Bach's intent in saying why all major thirds are > >sharp, placing them in an ET context, probably because he is in an ET > >context. Using sophistic argument, trailing inconsequential facts, and > >finally, making acusations of "revisionism" and implying incompetency are > >weak rebuttals for a scholar. > > Wasn't *that* special? Well, it added much more to the discussion than your one-line rejoinder. [bigsnip] > >Face it: there is no evidence that JS Bach favored, or even used ET in > >his earlier works. And to some ears, his music is quite enriched by > >variegation of keys. > > Of course I agree that most Bach sounds wonderful in Circular > temperaments. But I disagree that there is no evidence to show that the > temperament that Bach used was ET or something close to it. Then please present it. So far, what little evidence you've advanced has hardly been compelling. --pH (manynote@library.wustl.edu or http://library.wustl.edu/~manynote) O /\ "Do you like to gamble, Eddie? -\-\-- o Gamble money on pool games?" Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Fri, 29 Sep 1995 07:27 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id WAA07080; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 22:27:34 -0700 Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 22:27:34 -0700 Message-Id: <950929041544_71670.2576_HHB66-5@CompuServe.COM> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu