Carbonchi's 'Lo dodici chitarre spostate' from 1643 (Florence) comes to mind. Imagine to strum a passacaglia with twelve guitars, all tuned one semitone apart with 12 different alfabeto chords at the same time. Comes close to 'garage revival rock'. But meantone? Best, L.
> Although Colonna's 25 little Passacalli are not quite a full > complement of major and minor keys, they are pretty close to being > so. They are followed by more Passacalli, where chords involving > moveable shapes are used. It would seem that Colonna's aim is not so > much to exploit the subtle differences arising from varying degrees > of out-of-tune-ness, but rather to get the student guitarist to > become familiar with all the alfabeto symbols. With this range of > keys, I cannot imagine anything other than equal temperament being > appropriate. > > Best wishes, > > Stewart McCoy. > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Howard Posner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Lute Net" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 11:57 PM > Subject: [LUTE] Re: Mean tone temperament > > > > Stewart McCoy wrote: > > > > > I can think of quite a bit of baroque guitar > > > music which explores remote keys, and where equal temperament > would > > > have to be the order of the day. > > > > But it would not *have* to be anything of the sort, unless you > assume > > that a composer writing in F-sharp major expected it to sound like > C > > major a tritone higher. Some 17th-century keyboard pieces wander > into > > distant keys, and no one who has looked into it suggests that this > > meant the keyboard was tempered equally. The natural assumption > is > > that the explorations into keys outside the normal ones were > supposed > > to sound weird and outlandish (indeed, "weird" and "outlandish" > mean > > "beyond familiar territory"), making the return to comfortable C > or G > > more pronounced and even dramatic. The urge to tame the distant > keys > > by making the normal keys less in tune has a lot to do with > > 20th-century listening habits. > > > > HP > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
