Temperament is not really an issue here.
I am for one is absolutely happy to use ET, and I use it exclusively. As a
matter of fact I find MT's excessive overemphasis of acoustic differences of
chords quite irritating.
RT
From: "Mark Probert" <probe...@gmail.com>
RT> It seems that the richness of lute overtones is NOT conducive to
gratuitous
RT> dissonance that is de rigeur in most modernist and neomodernist music.
Agreed. I also think that it also has something to do with temperament.
Modern composers, on the whole, tend to ignore anything other than ET
and lutes are not creatures of ET, IMO. They were born in a time of
keys ranging from B-flat through G, including their minors (I exaggerate,
though there is a grain of truth), and I am not sure that atonal is the
best use of them. Or multikey tonal, for that matter. For my ear, none
of these pieces, interesting that they are, nailed this tonality issue.
. mark
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