source file: mills2.txt Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 13:14:05 -0700 Subject: Re #867 WTC From: A440A@aol.com Paul Rapoport writes; >> Of course, WTC is hardly the music to use extreme tunings on in the name >>of historical authenticity (there may be other reasons). I am not sure of what is meant by "extreme" here. {pardon me if I have totally missed the point}. If something like a Pietro Aaron (1/4 comma), is used, yes that is extreme for WTC............... The other temperments that were being published at the time, ( Peter Prelleur, Gottfried Keller, and Roger North), all contained a wide variety of tempering in the thirds, but no wolf intervals. Amongst the well temperaments, the Werckmiester III is fairly extreme, but the WTC I goes well in it. (perhaps not on a small, highly inharmonic piano, but on harpsichords, or 9' concert grands, this temperament is beautiful). Regards to all, Ed Foote Precision Piano Works Nashville, Tn. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 22:53 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA01462; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 22:55:33 +0200 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA01508 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id NAA23290; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 13:55:30 -0700 Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 13:55:30 -0700 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu