Historical temperaments: reply to Bill Alves

>A lack of chromaticism is not part of my argument - it is the lack of
>tonalities
>not well represented by a meantone tuning of 12 pitches.

Well... The two are more or less one in the same.

A highly chromatic composition in the key of C could call for a Gb just
as easily as could a largely diatonic (although obviously not entirely)
composition in, say, Ab major.

One key's exotic chromaticism is another's simple, ho-hum secondary dominant.

Now that is not to suggest that the detailed tuning requirements of, for
example, scale degree 2 in a V chord are necessarily the same as for an A6
chord.



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