> The keys do draw (or lead) musically, regardless of or in spite of, > temperament. Temperament color has nothing to do with what direction the > leading tones draw the progression. > Jeff Further, Temperament is simply the combination by which the fixed pitch instrument, and only the fixed pitch instrument, is enslaved. No other instrument is so bound. All music composed for instrumentation other than fixed pitch has been able to freely go where it will. Music never has and never will be based on temperament unless it was purposefully intended as a parody of the limitations of scale of the fixed pitch instrument. Jeff
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