Beat Rates in music

[jolly roger]

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Hi Ric,
             Aggressive stretch for late big concertos, and 20th century 
Russian works,  (Shostakovich, sp. )  conservative stretch for more 
romantic recitals.
  Now that's an over generalization, so I will duck into my bomb shelter.
Roger.


At 07:25 PM 8/5/02 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi folks
>
>I know this subject has come up relative to the use of
>historical temperaments before, but I am curious about how
>the amount of stretch in an ET tuning can be / is conciously
>employed as a part of the music played.
>
>I think is generally aggreed upon the the more stretch in
>general there is, the more tense the general sound of the
>tuning is. Clearly a Moonlight Sonata played on a fine
>instrument tuned with a lot of stretch imployed based on a
>wide 6:3 temperament octave is going to sound different then
>the same piece played on the same instrument where the
>temperment and stretch are very compressed. Perhaps it is
>possible to colour a musical piece through the general
>tenseness of the tuning ?
>
>I wonder also if anyone uses this technique as a voicing
>tool. I find that the more tense (stretched) the instrument
>is, the more is takes on a hard like character, and the more
>compressed the tuning the more roundlike and mellow the
>instrument sounds.
>
>I get the feeling most tuners learn one style of stretch and
>rarely change that. How many of you place any value on the
>the ability to adjust stretch in relation to the two above
>criteria, even when your own basic taste for stretch is at
>odds with these ?
>
>Thanks for your thoughts.
>
>RicB


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