Greetings, You know, in all honesty, after I wrote that query and sent it, I realized those 3rd to 5th relationships. What was I thinking? This reinforces my understanding. Also, I am reminded of the fact that the tonic triad is just that, the tonic... and is not the entire key's sonority/character. Yes! BTW, I have now taken (last June)and passed my tuning portion of the RPT exam, and now I am really getting into other temperaments. I now, never never tune in ET! I don't think I will ever tune in ET again!! Thank you! Julia Reading, PA In a message dated 2/16/2009 7:36:06 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, A440A at aol.com writes: Greetings, Acoustically, thirds and fifths work in opposition to one another, which generally means that in the traditional form of well temperament, the keys with the most highly tempered thirds will have the purest fifths, and the keys with the purest thirds will have the most highly tempered fifths. It is overly simplistic to regard a given key as highly tempered or not. If performed on a well-tempered keyboard, this harmonic contrast can be heard in Chopin's music, where he often places a pure melodic line above a very expressive harmony, creating a subtle musical texture that is unavailable in 20th century tuning. Regards, Ed Foote RPT Julia, It is more the strength of the thirds than the fifths that give the triads and key signatures their character. -- Jon Page **************Need a job? Find an employment agency near you. (http://yellowpages.aol.com/search?query=employment_agencies&ncid=emlcntusyelp00000003) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090216/a3d91432/attachment.html>
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