On Apr 18, 2010, at 8:41 PM, Laurence Libin wrote: > Okay, but then it wouldn't have occurred to me that 1880 or > thereabouts was still early in the 19th century. In that case, > Brahms surely qualifies for your survey? Anyway, I've kind of lost > the point here; is it that a predilection for keys far from C > suggests less tolerance for temperaments other than ET? > Laurence Most of this thread (from me) is a response to Ed Foote's claim that WTs sound more consonant because most music is in the diatonic keys. Since the diatonic keys have narrower major thirds, hence the thirds are milder. That was his claim. He has suggested that Chopin is a big exception. I don't believe this is the case. I'm afraid I did mis-write when referring to "early 19th century" and later to "1815-1880" - slip of the brain. Essentially I am talking about the trend of the 19th century, which is for many more distant keys. The standard repertory of the 19th century is not filled with mostly Bflat to D major. Keys with more accidentals are, in fact, more common (in piano music, which is what this applies to - other instrumental music not being affected by temperament issues in the same ways). Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico fssturm at unm.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100418/707c8797/attachment.htm>
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