Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!mit-eddie!nessus From: nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Bach's temper Message-ID: <4701@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Tue, 16-Jul-85 03:10:46 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.4701 Posted: Tue Jul 16 03:10:46 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Jul-85 08:10:58 EDT References: <291@cmu-cs-g.ARPA> Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 25 > From: ckk@cmu-cs-g.ARPA (Chris Koenigsberg) > This is because those farout keys sounded "out of tune" in the > temperament he was using, and his genius was to exploit the particualr > in- and out-of-tunedness particular to each individual key. So, where can I get recordings of Bach's music played in the proper temperament? I would think that it would make a big difference! > J.S.Bach's irreplaceable contribution to Western music was his de > facto establishment of the rules of "common practice" harmony, i.e. no > parallel fifths, no voice crossings, etc., that are still taught today > in harmony classes. And which some of my favorite musicians blithely ignore! Of course, it's probably a good thing that someone established these silly rules, because if someone didn't, then it would be impossible to break them. "My notion was that you had been (Before she had this fit) An obstacle that came between Him, ourselves, and it" Doug Alan nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (or ARPA)