Can any tuning work for good music?

Justin, I agree with the reply of Carl.

Cordially,
Ozan
----- Original Message -----
From: Justin .
To: tuning@yahoogroups.com
Sent: 03 Ekim 2005 Pazartesi 15:44
Subject: Re: [tuning] Re: Confucius

--- Ozan Yarman <ozanyarman@superonline.com> wrote:

> Carl, I agree with you entirely. Some people
> apparently take tuning for granted hereabouts and
> imagine that refined music can be produced in any
> sound system.

But can't it? I would think it can be. I liked the
artist's palette analogy for the temperaments. Sure
the great music was not BECAUSE of the temperament,
but, there came a temperament, and then a musician
created amazing music with the temperament. Or maybe a
musician created a temperament in order that he could
create a certain great music with it. So I'm sure
music in diferent temperaments will be different, but
can be great in so many different tunings right? I
would expect that the great composers would still have
composed great pieces had the temperament been
different. Surely they would have been totally
different pieces though, the artist manifesting the
music appropriate to the medium (temperament).
Aren't all the gamelans in Indonesia tuned differently
from each other? Could they even be a bit random? But
then, on each gamelan (is that how you spell it?)
greta ("refined") music has been developed. And each
is characteristically different (maybe due to the
different tuning leading to different characters of
creation).
Just some unqualified thoughts
Justin.