>Obviously the mini-techs will be the best place to be to get a handle on
>these skills, but coming to the mini-tech having tried other temperments
>will enhance our learning curve.
>
>Where are there sources?
Greetings,
Here is one,
The following is the 1840 Tuner's Guide Temperament #1 (® Owen Jorgensen
1991). It provides a conservative digression between sweet thirds and some
with "energy". There are no checks, you will develop a sense of tonal
comparison after you do it and listen a little.
1. C5 to fork
2. C5 to C4 Just
3. C4 to G4 temper narrow to approx 1.3 bps
4 G4 to G3 Just
5. G3 to D4 narrow 1.3 bps
6. D4 to A4 narrow 1.3
7 A4 to A3 just
8. A3 to E4 narrow 1.3
Trial chord here is C4-E4-G4-C5 and it should sound beautiful. The C-E will
be beating about half normal speed .
9. E4 to B4 narrow by .7 BPS, this is a nicer fifth than those
previous!
10 B4 to B3 Just
11. B3 to F#4 narrow by .7 BPS
12 F#4 to F#3 just
13. F#3 to C#4 narrow by .7 BPS
14. C#4 to G#4 Just
15. G#4 to G#3 Just
16. C5 to F4 narrow by 1.3 bps
17. F4 to Bb3 narrow by 1.3 bps
18. Bb3 to Bb4 Just
19. Tune Eb4 to make two identical fifths between Bb-Eb and Ab-Eb. These
fifths should be pure, but can stand a little temperament.
This tuning provides a varied set of consonances, in the thirds, that
follow the amount of key signature. If you modulate by fourths, from C, tonic
thirds should increase in tempering until you reach F#, at which point it
will begin heading back toward "home". The art is in getting a smooth
progression, with no reversals on the way out or in.
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