Re: Re Meantone, was Metastable intervals

Re: Re Meantone, was Metastable intervals, re Paul

> Johnny: Who do you know in music in so mono-dimensionable?
Incidentally, he
> has his name attached to an ET paper…but Marpurg attributes it to
Moses
> Mendelssohn.

Gene: Does anyone know anything further about Moses Mendelssohn as a tuning
theorist? What does this paper say?

Johnny: It's a short paper on the geometry of equal temperament. Marpurg
had been publishing something of a newsletter, which the East Germans compiled
into a book that I have. In it, Marpurg indicates the true author as Moses
Mendelssohn. Most likely, Moses was studying some of the musical arts with
Kirnberger, as many of his descendents did.

> Paul: Wow!!! So Kirnberger, all by his little old self, "discovers"
the
> schisma in 1766, and then further "discovers" that it is equal to
1/12
> of a P comma! Oooo! Cutting edge stuff indeed!

Gene: I would call the Kirberger atom cutting edge, yes. Who before 1766
remarked that twelve times the difference between a Didymus and a
Pythagorean comma was almost exactly a Pythagorean comma?

Johnny: Thank you for a timely comment.

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