sourness of meantone Bach (was Re: Another Bach tuning comparison)

> > Whatever the sourness of meantone Bach is caused by (and I'd
> > like to know), it doesn't seem to bother Gene.

It's caused by enharmonically misspelled notes, as I've explained with considerable detail in at least two papers:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bpl/larips/clavichord.html
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bpl/larips/outline.html

And a third, more general paper:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bpl/larips/art.html

Brad Lehman

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Brad Lehman <bpl@...> wrote:
>
> > > Whatever the sourness of meantone Bach is caused by (and I'd
> > > like to know), it doesn't seem to bother Gene.
>
> It's caused by enharmonically misspelled notes, as I've explained
with
> considerable detail in at least two papers:

It wasn't caused by that in this case, since I was ignoring the
spelling. These weren't trascriptions to extended meantone, of the kind
I've just done for BWB 542, but retunings with the meantone gamut moved
so as to correspond with the key.

Sour notes could occur in those because of a failure for the piece to
exactly fit inside the shifted gamut, a mistake on my part, or other
possibile reasons.