Arto
Aug-05-2005, 5:24am
The interesting "Origins of the major scale?" thread got me thinking. Fascinating stuff, these historical tuning systems (and thanks to JimD for pointing out the two articles in Early Music magazine about Bachīs tuning!).
Meantone tuning, Werkmeister, Vallotti, Bachīs well temperament, equal temperament... Does anybody know audio files about these in the net? Mathematical descriptions are interesting, but it doesnīt tell so much how these tunings SOUND. Of course there are lots of great recordings done on differently tuned old organs, harpsichords etc, but my ears arenīt good enought to compare tunings behind the instrumentīs sound colours and the musicianīs interpretation. It would be really interesting to to hear for example some simple piece or part of it played on simple computer sound but with different tuning systems. Does such web site exist?
thanks, Arto
Meantone tuning, Werkmeister, Vallotti, Bachīs well temperament, equal temperament... Does anybody know audio files about these in the net? Mathematical descriptions are interesting, but it doesnīt tell so much how these tunings SOUND. Of course there are lots of great recordings done on differently tuned old organs, harpsichords etc, but my ears arenīt good enought to compare tunings behind the instrumentīs sound colours and the musicianīs interpretation. It would be really interesting to to hear for example some simple piece or part of it played on simple computer sound but with different tuning systems. Does such web site exist?
thanks, Arto