M&D 172

[andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk]

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> So, that's my conclusions at this point.  The math looks right.  Sorry
> to go on at length about such a tangential topic, but, hey, that's why
> we are all here, right?

The different amounts of dissonance present in the various
alternatives to the mean tone scale were obviously well-known to
Baroque composers. I have read, most likely in the liner notes on LP
sleeves - albeit respectable ones, that the notion that scales have
their own peculiar flavours - from martial to mellow - was a working
assumption for composers even into the Classical period. Still is to a
degree in that different instruments (e.g. various of the strings or
brass) do not produce notes exactly tuned to a well-tempered scale.


Andrew Dinn
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