source file: mills3.txt Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 22:55:38 +0100 Subject: Beethoven In The Temperaments From: A440A@aol.com Carl wrote: >And there was some post not too long ago (from you?) about a set of >Beethovan recordings coming out in un-equal. I'd like to get updated >on that. Ok, I have been holding off officially telling anybody on this list to go order the CD, as the record company really got delayed on getting it pressed. However, I am told that they will begin shipping this Wednesday. The CD is "Beethoven In The Temperaments- Historical tunings on the Modern Concert Grand". It contains four Sonatas, ("Pathetique, op 14 no.1, Moonlight, and Waldstein"). The first two are done on a Prinz( Kirnberger III, and the second two are done on a Young(1799). The performer is Enid Katahn, a Steinway artist of many years and the piano is the Steinway D at Blair School of music, Vanderbilt University . I chose these pieces for their key, chronological order, and relationships to each other; as the harmonic journey through the keys becomes more important when we have left 12 TET behind. I took a chance and began with the key of C#min (the Pathetique). I mean, if your gonna break the ice, use a big hammer................. It is pretty dramatic to hear what a full syntonic comma sounds like on a modern piano, and Beethoven shows how to do it in the second movement. There is a lot of stuff, but I won't take the bandwidth here. I suppose Bach was a microtonalist, as he obviously was able to cope with a variety of tuning systems. The CD is going to be in stores, (or available) January 1, but for those that would make a Christmas present out of it, it can be ordered directly from Gasparo's 1-800 number. go to http://www.gasparo.com and you can see it all. Thanks for asking, those that have heard it have all been struck by the restoration of the "Character of the Keys" Regards, Ed Foote Precision Piano Works Nashville, Tn SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: "Paul H. Erlich" Subject: JI vs. equal temp. PostedDate: 01-12-97 23:06:41 SendTo: CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH ReplyTo: tuning@eartha.mills.edu $MessageStorage: 0 $UpdatedBy: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH,CN=Manuel op de Coul/OU=AT/O=EZH RouteServers: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=notesrv1/OU=Server/O=EZH RouteTimes: 01-12-97 23:05:03-01-12-97 23:05:03,01-12-97 23:04:58-01-12-97 23:04:58 DeliveredDate: 01-12-97 23:04:58 Categories: $Revisions: Received: from ns.ezh.nl ([137.174.112.59]) by notesrv2.ezh.nl (Lotus SMTP MTA SMTP v4.6 (462.2 9-3-1997)) with SMTP id C1256560.00794C4E; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 23:04:54 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA03752; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 23:06:41 +0100 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 23:06:41 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA03750 Received: (qmail 18845 invoked from network); 1 Dec 1997 14:06:38 -0800 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 1 Dec 1997 14:06:38 -0800 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu