Art for the sake of Art

Your namesake tends to think otherwise. I wonder how Bach could compose with a keyboard tuned to pythagorean ratios.
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From: Cris Forster
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Sent: 02 Ekim 2005 Pazar 6:34
Subject: [tuning] Re: Confucius

Processes of invention and discovery are never orderly.

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Ozan Yarman" <ozanyarman@s...> wrote:
> Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material
universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't
believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
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> E. M. Forster (1879–1970) British novelist. Art for Art's Sake
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> © 1994 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. All rights reserved.
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--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Ozan Yarman" <ozanyarman@s...> wrote:
> I wonder how Bach could compose with a keyboard tuned to
> pythagorean ratios.

Bach clearly benefited from the music theory work taking place
around him.

-Carl

Exactly. Without music theory of that era, Bach isn't Bach at all. Why, my productivity hits rock bottom whenever the tuning goes down. This may be one reason why olde composers were so prolific.
----- Original Message -----
From: Carl Lumma
To: tuning@yahoogroups.com
Sent: 02 Ekim 2005 Pazar 21:12
Subject: [tuning] Re: Art for the sake of Art

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Ozan Yarman" <ozanyarman@s...> wrote:
> I wonder how Bach could compose with a keyboard tuned to
> pythagorean ratios.

Bach clearly benefited from the music theory work taking place
around him.

-Carl