Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxd!rlr From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Huh? Message-ID: <1198@pyuxd.UUCP> Date: Wed, 10-Jul-85 20:08:28 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxd.1198 Posted: Wed Jul 10 20:08:28 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 12-Jul-85 03:13:47 EDT References: <3968@alice.UUCP> Organization: Whatever we're calling ourselves this week Lines: 14 >>> 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. > 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?) -- Like a bourbon? (HIC!) Drunk for the very first time... Rich Rosen ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr