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The Brabant Ensemble

🔗Graham Breed <gbreed@...>

8/27/2011 7:08:18 AM

I was listening to this programme this morning:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b013xnc3

They explicitly said The Brabant Ensemble are aiming for
just intonation in the Lassus disc. There's something
about it in the liner notes. Probably the same as on
their website:

http://www.brabantensemble.com/discography_-_Lassus.cfm

"This 'just intonation' system usually cannot be followed
precisely in performance because the demands of tuning
harmonic and melodic intervals purely are in competition,
and also, if observed strictly, frequently lead to the
music departing from its original pitch standard; however,
for the most part the system produces clearly better
results than equal temperament for chordal music, and
consequently, so far as is feasible, is followed here."

It seems to work. There's a "Listen now" feature, may not
be international.

Graham