Subject: Disagreement with Mozart? From: "reinifrosch@xxxxxxxx" <reinifrosch@xxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:45:55 +0000 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Dear colleagues, I do not seriously disagree with him, of course, but ... For the upcoming christmas concert of our choir, I changed the text of "Più non si trovano", K.V. 549, also known as number IV of "Sechs Nocturnos". In bar 10, there is a chord Bb-F-C#. We intend to have our singing accompanied on a DX11-synthesizer in meantone tuning, which sounds beautiful, with the exception of the just mentioned chord. If one plays Bb-F-Db instead, that chord, too, sounds very well. (In meantone tuning, Db is higher than C# by 41 cents.) Probably Mozart assumed ET or similar. He wrote C# and not Db, because the next Soprano note is D. Reinhart. Reinhart Frosch, Dr. phil. nat., r. PSI and ETH Zurich, Sommerhaldenstr. 5B, CH-5200 Brugg. Phone: 0041 56 441 77 72. Mobile: 0041 79 754 30 32. E-mail: reinifrosch@xxxxxxxx .