> Subject: Re: cents to cps .... need help. > Date: Monday, March 09, 1998 6:30 AM > > > One of the evil scientists who made almost everybody believe in the false > concept of Equal Temperament. Forensics apropos of the brain dead. For a more lively debate consider, "Western music now exists under the dictatorship of this one homogenized temperament."p4 "The accoustical truth is that in history {tuning} as one quality was gained, another virtue was sacrificed." "The gain for equal temperament (sic) is a homogenized grey coloring..... No variety during modulation is the equal-tempered ideal. The qualities sacrificed ... are harmoniousness (tonality) in the common keys, key-color..., and the "character" of keys. "The basic philosophy of the twentieth century equal temperament is to promote atonality..." p 6-9
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