source file: mills2.txt Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 07:30:25 -0800 Subject: Reply to Daniel Wolf From: Manuel.Op.de.Coul@ezh.nl (Manuel Op de Coul) From: PAULE >>'' Pieces in minor tended to end with a Picardy (major tonic) chord in the >>days >>when the minor triad was tuned 10:12:15.'' >Can you identify ''those days'' with any exactitude? No, there is no single set of dates. I would say Renaissance through Middle Baroque. Well-temperaments brought the 16:19:24 tuning into currency in the Late Baroque period. Please don't make this into another black-and-white issue, I'm trying to explain tendencies, not impose rules. Having played in these tunings during the 20th century, I can't give experimental proof that my own tendencies in this regard are similar to historical ones indepentenly of having grown up bombarded with classical music on the radio (which included some authentically-tuned performances of Renaissance music). But I feel them strongly. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Sat, 1 Mar 1997 16:32 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA01355; Sat, 1 Mar 1997 16:32:36 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA01419 Received: from by ella.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id HAA13553; Sat, 1 Mar 1997 07:30:45 -0800 Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 07:30:45 -0800 Message-Id: <009B09E5B9A2448A.582E@vbv40.ezh.nl> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@ella.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@ella.mills.edu