Charles Neuman wrote: > > Richard wrote: > > > > So Bach probably didnt write (in my opinion) for any particular > > temperament in the sense I get from your question... more likely he > > was writting in the new (at that time) genre of temperament thinking. > > OK. But if he was "writing in the new genre of temperament thinking", as > you say, then it's likely that his compositions were influenced by the > (then) current thinking on temperaments. Would everyone agree with that > idea? I'm trying to get a sense of exactly what people are arguing about. :) > > Charles Sure, as I read your question... I would think that any and all composers are influenced by the available and / or prevailing sounds they have at their disposal. Some in different ways then others. Take a guy like Ives for example... wacked out 4th symphony... lots of sounds and combinations there that very much relate to the society he lived in, and for that matter his childhood musical training, some speculate. It is said that his father taught him ear training by forcing him to sort out musical chords and intervals with about 120 decibles of traffic noise blasting in through the living room window. Heck, today ET has in some ways been left behind... Some people go as far as leaving all sence of musical scale in the dust... noise has become an acceptable definition or element in some composers / performers art. Witness that hanging piano wire experiment I posted the yesterday...we use largely, in our art what we are exposed to... some few open new ground for others to follow... grin.. and some of that gets hastily forgotten. Bach had his time, his influences and his beliefs and his imagination... kinda like the rest of us really...except of course he was an exceptional creative genuis. -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no
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