source file: mills2.txt Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 07:08:13 -0800 Subject: Re: digest 638 "Mood and mode" From: A440A@aol.com M. Puzan writes; >Do you suppose that someday music will be recognized and >classified for its >intonation...as we might today refer to a piece as being in a >"mode" like >Dorian or Major? I really believe in Ivor's notion about "mood" >and >temperament. Any thoughts? The keyboard tempering practises in use between 1700 and 1900,(dates are automatic flame targets in this subject!), offer physical reasons for different "moods" to emanate from different key signatures. What I am curious about is whether the differences between keys of, say, an early Werkmiester, are greater than the differences between the Greek modes. Plato, I believe, had strong thoughts about the effect different modes exerted on the developing mind, and in his Republic, I think, stated that some modes should never be heard, lest the growing intellect be irrepairably damaged. Any body listen to enough Greek Modes and Well Temperaments to make a comparison??? Regards, Ed Foote Precision Piano Works Nashville. Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 16:59 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id HAA26082; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 07:58:58 -0800 Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 07:58:58 -0800 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu