<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 10/29/01 8:36:34 AM Central Standard Time, A440A@AOL.COM writes:
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<BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Stravinsky's music
<BR>seems to rely on equality, I don't know if it would have been created for
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<BR>I wonder why that Stravinsky piece I performed in last spring, The Symphony of Psalms had very distinct character to it in the different keys it modulated? Why did it end in the solemn and still key of C? Why not C# or B or any other key if they are all the same? In recalling the two orchestra parts for piano, the way they were written would not have been adversely affected by using a Victorian temperament (and perhaps a much stronger HT). To say that this music was written for or required ET is a statement pulled out of thin air. It has no foundation in fact nor is there any evidence to support it.
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<BR>Stravinsky's music is harmonically complex but very tonal.
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<BR>Bill Bremmer RPT
<BR>Madison, Wisconsin</FONT></HTML>