From: "Charles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: rec.music.early Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 8:09 AM > "Sybrand Bakker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >> Jean-Philippe Rameau was the first writer to >> describe ET, in his Traite de l'harmonie, published in Paris in 1754, >> so after Bach's death. > > > This is incorrect! > For earlier descriptions of Equal Temperament, please see: > 1) J. G. Neidhardt 'Beste und leichteste temperatur des Monochordi' (Jena > 1706) > 2) A. Werckmeister, 'Paradoxal-Discourse' (1707) > 3) J. Mattheson, Critica musica, (Hamburg 1722) > The following Internet article provides an analysis of an Equal > Temperament > dating from 1703 that Mattheson published in 1722 (the year of Bach's Well > Tempered Clavier): > > http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Articles/EqTemp1722.pdf >
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