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Re: Disagreement with Mozart?
Mark,
Playing Mozart in meantone tuning is certainly wrong in more
than one respect -- but that mistake has beautiful consequences.
On organs, harmonicas etc., "Ave verum corpus", e.g., in meantone
tuning is even more beautiful than it is in ET. For listeners with
undamaged outer hair cells, the difference is quite impressive.
Most solo singers, and many choir singers, however, apply vibrato,
with pitch variation of ~50 cents, so that the differences between
meantone and ET are unimportant. Good vibrato-less choir singers
of a given part differ from each other by typically 10 cents; it is
because of these differences that large choirs sound so beautiful;
so the ET-meantone-just differences are fairly unimportant for
vibrato-less choirs, too.
See my book "Meantone Is Beautiful", available via Amazon or via
the publisher, www.peterlang.com.
With best wishes,
Reinhart.
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Von: mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Datum: 26.11.2009 10:23
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Betreff: Re: [AUDITORY] Disagreement with Mozart?
What exactly is your disagreement with Mozart?
I think the problem is trying to play Mozart using meantone. I assume
his singers would have attempted just intonation rather than a fixed
temperament.
Best,
Mark
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