All good stuff Stewart, but does it apply to the 'baroque' guitar? As has
already been pointed out, the use of 'alfabeto' moveable chord shapes impies
equal temperament (or near).
In particular, the M, N and H chords frequently occur in Italian printed
collections using all frets
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Date: Saturday, March 25, 2006 3:38 am
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Mean tone temperament
sectioned frets are even necessary to get really, wholly and maybe
holy ET because of
the different string material and action. See this here for an
Jon Murphy wrote:
What are distant keys?
Keys that have few notes in common with the home key. A piece in C
major will typically modulate to G or F or minor, but gets far afield
if it drifts into A-flat or F-sharp, and in any equal temperament those
sections will sound dissonant and
On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:52:58 -0500 Roman Turovsky
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Howard wrote:
Equal
temperament pretty much destroys this expressive effect. Most
baroque music is in one of the simpler keys (i.e. few sharps or
flats
You forgot the modifier EARLY. In the later baroque
