Not really. There is no contradiction between ET and preJSB styles either.
In my opinion ET lends ANY music noble and unaffected delivery.
And there is no necessity of liking dodecaphony if you like ET. I am
certainly no fan of the former, and it can be done in any temperament
anyway. Current forms of neomodernism are not pitch-dependent, and often
avoid all definite pitch (as well as meter).
As to actual temperaments- none are absolute, and even fewer are
sufficiently stable to discuss.
Another point -
There is a belief that intonational espression is largely a product of ET,
because the latter permit minute deviations therefrom which actually produce
expression.
Minute deviations from MT are plain old ugly, and the natural consequence of
this is the so-called Rooley Principle, according to which any expression is
entirely inappropriate in Early Music in general.
RT
----- Original Message -----
From: "wikla" <[email protected]>
To: "Lute list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 5:29 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: New lute music
Dear Roman and other dears,
On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:23:21 -0400, "Roman Turovsky" wrote:
[...]
I am for one is absolutely happy to use ET, and I use it exclusively.
Poor you... ;-) I guess you'll never get your ET absolute. Neither does
anyone else. We non ET's in our side neither are able to achieve the
optimum. But to us it is simplier: we know we cannot reach the "truth" to
every key - we just optimise the sound. To us non ET's there is no need to
make Eb sound like D#; But if just only that is what is needed, we can do
that easily while spoiling something else instead. I guess you know the
system, Roman? While you favorite one key, you spoil another. If you
prefer
- let us say Schönberg's 12 tone music to - let us say JS Bach in his
tonalities - you should prefer also ET. If tonality is a message to you, I
would recommend non-ET to you.
Best,
Arto
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