At 08:24 PM 3/19/99 -0500, you wrote: > This is an example of using the Wolf as a musical force when it is usually >considered unusable, musically. The 1/7 Comma Meantone is often used as a >substitute for a Well-Temperament because the very slight Wolf it has actually >becomes a very powerful musical force. It is especially effective in Romantic >literature such as Brahms, Chopin, Schumann, Schubert, Debussy, etc. where >they wrote their most powerfully emotional passages in the key of Ab. >Bill Bremmer RPT Is the 'wolf' the reason for a term I heard along time ago, I don't remember which musician or composer said it but something was referred to as the "pianists' vibrato". Jon Page Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. (jpage@capecod.net) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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