On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:52:58 -0500 "Roman Turovsky"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Howard wrote:
> >> Equal
> >> temperament pretty much destroys this expressive effect. Most
> >> baroque music is in one of the simpler keys (i.e. few sharps or
flats
> You forgot the modifier EARLY. In the later
Jon Murphy wrote:
> What are "distant keys"?
Keys that have few notes in common with the "home" key. A piece in C
major will typically modulate to G or F or minor, but gets far afield
if it drifts into A-flat or F-sharp, and in any equal temperament those
sections will sound dissonant and
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Saturday, March 25, 2006 3:38 am
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Mean tone temperament
> sectioned frets are even necessary to get really, wholly and maybe
> holy ET because of
> the different string material and action. See this here for an
> illu
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From: Howard Posner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Saturday, March 25, 2006 0:40 am
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Mean tone temperament
> Pluckers of fretted things have more flexibility than keyboard
> players,
> not less, because it's a relatively simple matter to retune a lute
All good stuff Stewart, but does it apply to the 'baroque' guitar? As has
already been pointed out, the use of 'alfabeto' moveable chord shapes impies
equal temperament (or near).
In particular, the M, N and H chords frequently occur in Italian printed
collections using all frets fr
