Klarinet Archive - Posting 000687.txt from 1998/11

From: "Hiroshi Nagatsuma" <hiroshi@-----.jp>
Subj: RE: [kl] RE: Concert_A_pitch,_again? -AND- A few cent's worth
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 19:23:14 -0500

There is an intereting home page by a Japanese vilolinist/composer
concerning pure temperament
with MIDI samples.
http://www.music.co.jp/~archi/indexe.html
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=93=FA=8E=9E : 1998=94N11=8C=8E18=93=FA 23:05
=8C=8F=96=BC : [kl] RE: Concert_A_pitch,_again? -AND- A few cent's worth

>Hiroshi Nagatsuma wrote:
>> String and vocal people are playing not by equal temperament but by pu=
re
>> temperament. Is this right?
>> Tuning to the reference pitch 440Hz or 442Hz seems OK.But it seems
doubtf=3D
>> ul
>> to tune each intervals exactly to the tuner. On the other hand:Flute
play=3D
>> ers
>> can easily 'bend' intonations.I wonder how by clarinet.
>
>I'm not sure there is a such thing a "pure temperament". Strings and voc=
als
>often are more atuned to "Just temperament", sometimes call "Just
>Intonation"
>or "JI".
>
>Flute players adjust the intonation of individual notes by adjusting the
>"depth" and "width" of the airstream between the lips and the tone hole.
>Clarinetist can do this to some degree through voicing (using the tongue
>and oral cavity to shape the airstream). Also, clarinetists and
saxophonists
>can also bend a note downward by "dropping the jaw", though this does
>affect the tone and is used mainly in jazz, not "legit" playing (the ben=
d
>on the open G at the end of the openning phrase of Rhapsody In Blue
requires
>a lip bend).
>
>If you are interested in a more in-depth treatment of tuning and
>temperaments,
>there is a tuning mailing list (to which I belong) that discusses variou=
s
>alternate tunings and such (like JI, equal temperaments with more than 1=
2
>divisions, etc.). They also get into various ethnic tunings.
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>Beware - this is heavy stuff! I've been a member for about the past 6
months
>and I'm still trying to figure out what they're talking about (I only
>recently figured out that 12TET means 12 Tone Equal Temperament).
>
>Kevin Bowman
>Clarinet and Saxophone Instructor,
>Rochester Conservatory of Music, Rochester, MI
>and
>Saxophones, Clarinet and Flute,
>B-Side Blues Project
>
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