source file: mills2.txt Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 16:00:57 -0800 Subject: Re: TUNING digest 1002 From: Atlas Eclipticalis Daniel Wolf reported that: > > Paul Erlich wrote: > > >>'' Pieces in minor tended to end with a Picardy (major tonic) chord in > the > >>days > >>when the minor triad was tuned 10:12:15.'' > > I asked: > > >Can you identify ''those days'' with any exactitude? > > He responded: > > ''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 Which calls to mind our current topic in my music theory classes at school, Schenkerian analysis. Acording to a very emotional "Schenkerian Structural Analasys" campaign, the picardy ending is a statement to the idea that minor sonorities are expressions of the fundamental- harmonicly speaking the ostensible root, and acousticly speaking the series fundamental. To this point, it is further stated by Schenkerians that the major and minor sonorities are expressions of the same background structural information. Now, to which degree does the Schenkerian I-V-I "Ursatz" analyzed out of "tonal" music afect choice of tuning? Maybe someone more familiar with this kind of lingo can speak on that. For instance, I want to know, does the V_I dominant-tonic cadence require a certain tuning for proper performance? Rick Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 03:12 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA03624; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 03:12:32 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA03544 Received: from by ella.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id SAA13689; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 18:10:54 -0800 Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 18:10:54 -0800 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@ella.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@ella.mills.edu