source file: mills2.txt Date: Sat, 4 Jan 1997 11:40:03 -0800 Subject: Re: Werckmeister III From: Johnny Reinhard Manuel is correct the flat fifths are: C-G, G-D, D-A, B-F# (Circling in the back of my mind was the fact that F Major is the most "just" of the major keys.) Johnny Reinhard American Festival of Microtonal Music 318 East 70th Street, Suite 5FW New York, New York 10021 USA (212)517-3550/fax (212) 517-5495 reinhard@ios.com On Sat, 4 Jan 1997, Manuel Op de Coul wrote: > > Translation of the Werckmeister treatise of 1691 > > remains available only in archaic Thuringian German (and in an unpublished > No that's the original. > > Johnny's description of Werckmeister III is incorrect. It's this: > Eb Bb F C G D A E B F# C# G# > 0 0 0 1/4 1/4 1/4 0 0 1/4 0 0 syntonic commas flat. > > Manuel Op de Coul coul@ezh.nl > Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Sat, 4 Jan 1997 21:46 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA01218; Sat, 4 Jan 1997 21:49:37 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA01216 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id MAA14656; Sat, 4 Jan 1997 12:49:34 -0800 Date: Sat, 4 Jan 1997 12:49:34 -0800 Message-Id: <199701041547_MC1-E36-A02@compuserve.com> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu