>Obviously the mini-techs will be the best place to be to get a handle on >these skills, but coming to the mini-tech having tried other temperments >will enhance our learning curve. > >Where are there sources? Greetings, Here is one, The following is the 1840 Tuner's Guide Temperament #1 (® Owen Jorgensen 1991). It provides a conservative digression between sweet thirds and some with "energy". There are no checks, you will develop a sense of tonal comparison after you do it and listen a little. 1. C5 to fork 2. C5 to C4 Just 3. C4 to G4 temper narrow to approx 1.3 bps 4 G4 to G3 Just 5. G3 to D4 narrow 1.3 bps 6. D4 to A4 narrow 1.3 7 A4 to A3 just 8. A3 to E4 narrow 1.3 Trial chord here is C4-E4-G4-C5 and it should sound beautiful. The C-E will be beating about half normal speed . 9. E4 to B4 narrow by .7 BPS, this is a nicer fifth than those previous! 10 B4 to B3 Just 11. B3 to F#4 narrow by .7 BPS 12 F#4 to F#3 just 13. F#3 to C#4 narrow by .7 BPS 14. C#4 to G#4 Just 15. G#4 to G#3 Just 16. C5 to F4 narrow by 1.3 bps 17. F4 to Bb3 narrow by 1.3 bps 18. Bb3 to Bb4 Just 19. Tune Eb4 to make two identical fifths between Bb-Eb and Ab-Eb. These fifths should be pure, but can stand a little temperament. This tuning provides a varied set of consonances, in the thirds, that follow the amount of key signature. If you modulate by fourths, from C, tonic thirds should increase in tempering until you reach F#, at which point it will begin heading back toward "home". The art is in getting a smooth progression, with no reversals on the way out or in.
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