source file: mills2.txt Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 13:13:08 -0800 Subject: WTK/WTC/DWK From: Manuel.Op.de.Coul@ezh.nl (Manuel Op de Coul) Jonathan Walker writes: <<... I do not doubt that, for example, the "48" were intended for well-temperament and not for equal temperament; because the evidence (including the title WTK!) clinches the issue, I can afford to dismiss anyone who thinks otherwise as simply ignorant of the relevant facts.>> I think it is a mistake to draw this conclusion from the term "wohltemperirt" in the title. The meaning is far from clearly defined. It's a rather uncommon term; there may only be two theoreticians in the 17th and 18th century who used it: Werckmeister and Sorge. At first it's used in a loose way by Werckmeister, meaning only "well tempered" or "well tuned". Later he uses it to denote a class of tunings with which can be played in all keys and which contains no wolf intervals. Sorge's interpretation is virtually the same. Therefore it can mean either equal or unequal temperament. Noteworthy is also that they spelled "wohl temperirt". A debate on this issue has been on this list in the past however, which I don't want to restart. But I do have doubts. Reference: Rudolf Rasch: "Wohltemperirt en gelijkzwevend", _Mens en Melodie_ vol. 36 no. 9, Sept. 1981, pp. 264-273. 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; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 00:08 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA03534; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 00:05:59 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA03388 Received: from by ella.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id OAA26947; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 14:54:50 -0800 Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 14:54:50 -0800 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@ella.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@ella.mills.edu