Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site mhuxr.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mfs From: mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Huh? Message-ID: <377@mhuxr.UUCP> Date: Thu, 11-Jul-85 09:02:12 EDT Article-I.D.: mhuxr.377 Posted: Thu Jul 11 09:02:12 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 07:35:30 EDT References: <3968@alice.UUCP> <1198@pyuxd.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 15 > >>> You might want to reflect on the fact that Bach invented the Western > >>> system of musical notation, something that EVERY other musician that > >>> came later owes to him, including Kate Bush. [ME] > > > Am I in the wrong universe? Where did this come from? > > (it ain't so, folks!) [KOENIG] > > I think what they all mean is that Bach was the first to EXPLOIT even- > tempered tuning in a compositional setting, by writing the 48 sets of > preludes and fugues in the Well-Tempered Clavier, with two sets for > each key, major and minor. (Did I get that right?) [ROSEN] > -- Yes you did Marcel Simon