Hello, Am 17.04.2008 um 11:58 schrieb Augusto de Ornellas Abreu:
What about when playing with other instruments
the same as always. compromises are only needed in cases where one of the stiff 12-pitches-per-octav instruments like church organ, akkordeon, hurdy gurdy or piano are involved. Those are the handycaped ones. And some of them use equal temperament but not by far all of them. Church organs, harpsichords, hurdy gurdies and some accordeons are not equally tempered for example.
all the others usually just do intonate in demand. Most brass (trombones, horns, trumpets...) do, all fretless strings (violins, cellos and doublebass, harps,...), all strings with moveable frets (viola da gambas, luths,...), vocalists, many woodwinds - they have alternative fingerings for more than 12 pitches per octave, even electronic keyboards usually do have just intonation as one of their presets,...
Classical orchestral music is not equal tempered.
(acoustic guitar,
guitar players can bend the string for pitching up. Historical guitars have moveable frets.
violin
as said above is completely free in intonation.
silver flute
has alternative fingerings and can be intonated by embouchure.
... Is there a compromise in terms of temperament, somewhere in between equal and just?
Many compromises have been worked out for any musical situation involving stiff pitched instruments, during all periodes of music, documented as far back as documentation goes. But in general, 90% of all music made is not in equal temperament. If a free intonating instrument meets a handycaped stiff intonating one it will just follow the limited possibilities of that. Equal temperament is a solution for a small group of handicaped instruments used to play all keys like all the free intonating instruments do. Out of what ever funny reason these handfull of stiff intonaters today occupy the position of opinion leaders. That most basic musical education declares equal temperament as standard does just tell about the inferior quality of todays basic musical education, but nothing about music.
kind regards Simon Wascher - Vienna, Austria --- have a look at: http://hurdygurdywiki.wiki-site.com http://drehleierwiki.wiki-site.com --- my site: http://simonwascher.info
