source file: mills2.txt Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 00:10:32 +0200 Subject: Re: Historical temperaments From: Paul Hahn If one looks at the record in the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe of Thomas Atwood's composition lessons with Mozart, one sees that Mozart starts him writing out diatonic and chromatic scales, noting that a wholetone must contain both a greater and a lesser semitone and that sharps are lower than the enharmonic flats. This without any reference to specific instruments. To me this indicates Mozart tends to think in meantone. (One also notes Mozart's tendency to call Atwood an ass when he makes rather egregious part-writing errors. 8-)> ) --pH http://library.wustl.edu/~manynote <*> O /\ "Foul? What the hell for?" -\-\-- o "Because you are chalking your cue with the 3-ball." Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Sat, 12 Jul 1997 04:16 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA30108; Sat, 12 Jul 1997 04:16:32 +0200 Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 04:16:32 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA30065 Received: (qmail 8126 invoked from network); 12 Jul 1997 02:16:28 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 12 Jul 1997 02:16:28 -0000 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu