A quite agree.
A MT might spice up a 4-chord pattern, but later music with substantial
modulations is quite a different matter.
RT
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eugene C. Braig IV" <[email protected]>
To: "'Lute list'" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 5:51 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: New lute music
This seems a little too fluffily esoteric. Practically speaking,
temperaments are only tools to express musical ideas; some are more useful
than others for differing applications. If you intend to modulate to remote
keys with a fretted instrument (not only serialism, but also much-most
substantial written music post-Bach and even some before), I suggest equal
temperament may be the greatest facilitator. If you want to play 16th-c.
music in G on 6-course lutes tuned G to g', some non-equal temperament might
serve your efforts at expression. If you want to do different things at
different times with different fretted thingies, you might even opt to
occasionally use equal temperament and occasionally use some meantone
scheme, etc. In some applications (e.g., taksim), any temperament at all as
necessitated by frets is too constrictive. Thumbing of proverbial noses at
one group's temperament choices doesn't serve anybody at all...but it can be
amusing.
Eugene
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of wikla
Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 5:30 PM
To: Lute list
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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