On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, Roman Turovsky wrote: > I suspect my Artusi and Frescobaldi quotes disappeared in the crash of Mac > last August, but it seems the Werckmeisrter quote survived: > "..... > The irony of mentioning Werckmeister's temperaments of 1691, is that in his > 'Paradoxal-Discourse" published posthumously in 1707, his final words on > temperament included the following:
It is a pity that only your late baroque references survived.... :-) > "It is more than a century ago that a common mistake was made by musicians > regarding temperament because they held onto the notion and kept thinking > that all 3rds had to be pure and all 5ths should be out of tune by 1/4 of a W's article seems to be interesting! Could you perhaps shortly explain its relation to ET? I can see there is some relation, but it still is not it! Perhaps it was only a wish to be there with your electronic Korg... :) Arto To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
