nonsense needs help.

[Billbrpt]

In a message dated 98-03-10 14:49:43 EST, you write:

<< 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   >>

I have indeed considered it.  It sounds more like Karl Marx wrote it than any
musician with a PhD.  It also was forced upon the public without its consent.
Virtually all listenable music today is tonal, not atonal.  Whe do we need
black & white with shades of grey when all music except that played on a piano
in ET has all the color in it?  ET turns the piano in to a virtual FAX
machine.  The product rendered can be recognized for what it is but is
disposable and not even expected to be the real thing.

Bill Bremmer RPT
Madison, Wisconsin