Another Recital in 1/7 Comma Meantone

[david severance]

Hi Avery

The SAT III has as 1/4 comma meantone and a 1/6 comma meantone on t pages 9
and 10 respectively.  Jorgensen's "Tuning" has offsets for 9 regular and 7
modified as well as aural instructions for many more. I keep one of the
practice pianos here tuned in 1/4 comma meantone as well as 4 or five other
HTs for the students and profs to experiment with.

David Severance
School of Music and Theater Arts
Washington Sate University
Pullman, WA 99164





At 02:24 PM 4/12/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi Mike,
>
>    Interesting comments. We have a very good jazz program here and I'd
>be very interested in trying to explore this with them.
>    I don't have my SAT book with me here at home, but aren't there offsets
>in that to tune Meantone? (At the risk of needing a flame suit to even
>mention such heresy!) :-)
>    Have you used Meantone there? If so, what had been the reaction. I'd
>really be interested in hearing your comments.
>    Thanks.
>
>Avery
>
>       Though meantone is the genre of the early baroque, it has much to offer
>>the contemporary musician, -especially the jazz musician.  The quasi pure
>>intervals, particularly the seventh chords are simply ethereal.  Even the 
>>wolves
>>have an expression which could really be useful for certain musical
>>applications.  I hope that no talented composer will be denied access to
>>meantone or live and die without being exposed to it.
>>       Eventually someone will surely compose a hit in meantone, 
>> especially with
>>the proliferation of synthesizers equipped to play in it.  After this 
>>happens we
>>will all start offering it to the general public and will be regularly 
>>requested
>>to tune it.  Nobody should fear that day, as equal temperament is by far the
>>most difficult of temperaments to tune.
>>     IMHO tuners are artists and as such have artistic liberty to tune as they
>>wish.  The only time they don't is when it is for another artist, as in 
>>the case
>>of a concert.  Here the concert artist or the composer is the lead artist 
>>so the
>>tuner must stay within their reasonable expected parameters.
>>         I hope we will continue to educate the music world on the value of
>>various temperaments and the seasoning with which they can enhance music.
>>
>>-Mike Jorgensen RPT --but longs to be a  true "tuning artist."
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