more on this temperament tangent

Conrad Hoffsommer hoffsoco@martin.luther.edu
Fri, 02 Nov 2001 04:18:19 -0600


At 21:32 11/01/2001 -0500, you wrote:
><< >Beethoven was DEAF when he wrote this piece!
> >Tom Sivak
>
>Yeah, but his memory of the tone color he wanted wasn't!! >>
>
>The thought that composers compose in temperaments is ludicrous.
>Tom Sivak


If I may be so bold...

That is like saying that the thought that artists paint with the colors 
found on their palates is ludicrous.

Mona Lisa in charcoal would still be recognisable, but wouldn't be what the 
artist had in mind any more than in watercolor or paint by number.


Conrad Hoffsommer - Decorah, Ia.  mailto:hoffsoco@luther.edu

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