historical temperaments

[David Love]

Ed:

I wasn't quite clear from what you wrote.  Did you mean Beethoven in
Kirnberger or Werckmeister, or something else.

David Love

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Sent: January 12, 2002 5:28 PM
Subject: Re: historical temperaments


> Charles writes:
>
> << Anyway, I'm curious if anyone has a list of favorite piano pieces to
play
> for various temperaments. I'm sure Ed Foote must have a repertoir that he
> would use for demonstrating temperaments. >>
>
> Greetings,
>    There are any number of pieces that demonstrate one or another aspect
of
> temperament.  Just as George Gershwin's music can demo exactly why ET
sounds
> so good, Bach's will show a Werckmeister to good effect.
>   In general terms,  I have tried to use music that contains a lot of
> vertical harmony to demo the temperaments in my classes.  The two CD's
that
> we have out,(one, "6 Degrees of Tonality" is absolutely rocketing up the
> Amazon.com sales rankings as a result of Isacoff's misleading book
> "Temperament"), cover much of what I thought sounded good.  The opening of
> the "Moonlight" sonata on the first one, and Beethoven's op 110 on the
second
> are very strong examples.  Haydn's sonata in Eb in a Kirnberger is also
> another world of sound.
>    After hearing the pianist in St. Louis play Clara Schumann's
"Variations
> on a Theme by Robert Schumann",  I have been making plans to produce our
> third recording as "Well Tempered Clara".  Her use of harmony is
incredible,
> delicate, and imho, absolutely dependant on key color to create the
maximum
> expression of emotional image.  We will see.
> regards,
> Ed Foote RPT
>
>