Re: Re: TD 411 -- Reply to John deLaubenfels on dissonan ce and style

Paul!
As a composer, after building new instruments in a new tuning I sometimes
find that transposing an older composition into this tuning reflects aspects
that i wish were in the original. It is possible that Bach might have enjoyed
the tuning as well as the key change in similar light!

"Paul H. Erlich" wrote:

> Although quantitative studies of the WTC appear to
> reveal that its composition was indeed informed by such a tuning, it is also
> known that a good number of its pieces were simply transposed from earlier
> works, originally in meantone or meantone-like keys of a well-temperament,
> into the supposedly most "dissonant" or Pythagorean-like keys of
> well-temperament.

-- Kraig Grady
North American Embassy of Anaphoria Island
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