Anne, "Queen of the Victorian Temperament" wrote:
>Interestingly, tonality has experienced a resurgence even in the rarified
>ivory tower composition world. I have
>had the pleasure of introducing non-equal temperaments to one modern
>composer, (though he is long out of the ivory tower, and gave up his atonal
>ways years ago) and he immediately noticed and responded to the difference.
>He is quite comfortable on my Victorian tuned grand, and notes that he
>improvises differently than on his usual electronic keyboard.
Greetings,
This is great progress. That AB has scored a composer is, (to use my
son's description), way cool!
I would also like to mention to any of the latecomers here on the list,
that Anne has a CD of herself playing a Victorian tuning with Richard Turner
singing. It is "Voices That Are Gone", (on Corvus records), and is a really
nice sounding set of songs, for sure. It has been in our house rotation here
since we got it, and is usually part of at least one weekend afternoon a
month. Maybe it is the tonality, maybe the playing, maybe even both!, but
there is something in there that is ever entertaining. Try it, you will like
it.
Regards,
Ed Foote
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