On Friday, January 30, 2004, at 04:01 PM, Roman Turovsky wrote: >> The WTC then becomes an interesting exercise in *composing* in >> different keys >> (because each key has its own character), rather than an exercise in >> *playing* >> in any key (which is trivial). I'm sorry - writing for writing. Try to play ''in any key''!
> This is a matter of opinion, and I personally find nothing trivial > about it. > Unequal temperament may give some flavour to earlier music that blandly > never strays to far from the home key, but in the era in which > modulation > became an important element of expression ET is anything but > "trivial". It > is INDISPENSABLE, as a matter of fact. > RT Crazily loving modulations (which are so rare in Baroque literature) I undersigne with both hands. jurek
