AW.: RE: Re: Response to Dave Hill on JI and European composi tion

In einer Nachricht vom 12/16/99 2:33:25 PM (MEZ) Mitteleurop�ische
Zeitschreibt PErlich@Acadian-Asset.com:

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That's what I would suggest as a possible solution for not only 16th but
even 17th and 18th century music on variable-pitch instruments. >>

There is indeed a rich repertoire of renaissance music which may be played on
ensembles entirely composed of instruments of variable pitch, but most music
through the early classical era composed for variable-pitch instruments also
includes continuo accompaniment, either fretted strings or keyboard
instruments. In order to play "in tune" in the presence of such tempered
instruments with fixed pitches, the variable-pitch instruments would be
forced to match the temperament.

After the renaissance some form of adaptive JI seems only to become current
again with the emergence of chamber music without continuo, especially the
string quartet and quintet (the latter being Mozart's prefered genre).
Unaccompanied vocal music will wait even longer to re-emerge, and indeed
becomes especially problematic to tune (try, for example, Brahm's _In stiller
Nacht_).