different temperaments: empirical test

Israel Stein custos3 at comcast.net
Sun Jul 1 09:24:12 MDT 2007



At 05:51 AM 7/1/2007"Gregor _" <karlkaputt at hotmail.com>  wrote:

>Anyway: there was an empirical test of 4 
>different temperaments and 4 different songs. 
>Subjects were music students. The temperaments 
>were: our Standard ET and the following 
>temperaments which names I only know in German: 
>natürlich-harmonisch (natural harmonic?), 
>phytagoräisch (pythagoreian?), mitteltönig (no 
>idea about English word: middle tone?).

Interesting experiment, Gregor. I would love to 
hear more. The English terms would be:

Just Intonation, Pythagorean, Meantone.

Israel Stein










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