source file: mills2.txt Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 13:59:09 -0700 Subject: RE: Journal of Psychology" Interval= PAU From: PAULE Ed Foote wrote: > I must ask the author if he is suggesting that "Classical" keyboard >composers were using equal temperament? >(Classical to me means from Bach to Chopin, so there may be some difference >of labels here.) No. Firstly, I consider Bach a Baroque composer, and secondly, I was not referring to equal temperament in particular, but 12-note tunings which have large major thirds and small minor thirds in general. These tunings came into being as a result of convenience but carry with them a certain quality that is not shared by other diatonic tunings, such as those with 19 notes. My impression is that Mozart dealt with large major thirds and small minor thirds from the beginning, and I believe that circumstance to have influenced his compositional choices to a considerable extent. Same goes for Chopin, a "Romantic" keyboard composer. Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 04:23 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id TAA07598; Wed, 31 Jul 1996 19:23:32 -0700 Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 19:23:32 -0700 Message-Id: <199608010029.SAA25668@freenet.uchsc.EDU> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu