Meantone, my personal adventure

[Jon Page]

At 08:24 PM 3/19/99 -0500, you wrote:

>  This is an example of using the Wolf as a musical force when it is usually
>considered unusable, musically.  The 1/7 Comma Meantone is often used as a
>substitute for a Well-Temperament because the very slight Wolf it has
actually
>becomes a very powerful musical force.  It is especially effective in
Romantic
>literature such as Brahms, Chopin, Schumann, Schubert, Debussy, etc. where
>they wrote their most powerfully emotional passages in the key of Ab.
>Bill Bremmer RPT

Is the 'wolf' the reason for a term I heard along time ago, I don't remember
which musician or composer said it but something was referred to as the
"pianists' vibrato".



Jon Page
Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. (jpage@capecod.net)
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