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Enharmonic derision

🔗John Chalmers <jhchalmers@xxxxxxx.xxxx.xxxx>

12/16/1999 8:18:04 AM

Somewhere I've read that a musical amateur in later times "vomited black
bile" upon hearing an enharmonic melody, but I can't recall where I read
it. This might be just a hyperbolic way of saying it made him very
melancholy, but it does imply that the enharmonic genus had fallen out
of favor by that time.

--John