Klarinet Archive - Posting 000210.txt from 2007/01

From: George Kidder <gkidder@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Temperament, the book
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:36:21 -0500

You didn't say, in fact.

This is a curious and very personal book. I too would like to hear the
various temperaments he mentions. As you probably noted, Iascoff
approaches the subject exclusively from the viewpoint of a keyboard player,
for which equal temperament is clearly the best. He does not do more than
pay lip service to instruments (and voice) which can smoothly deviate from
equal temperament. I suspect he would not be happy with good examples
taken from flexible instruments - they might emphasize the point that the
problem lies with the inflexibility of keyboard instruments, not with the
temperaments adopted to correct for this problem.

George

At 08:04 PM 1/28/2007, you wrote:
>My outgoing message on this subject is on my laptop and I don't want to
>boot it up to see if I said that the work I read was "Temperament: How
>Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization"
>by Stuart Isacoff.
>
>Oliver
>
>At 07:15 AM 1/28/2007, Ken wrote, in part:
>>Oliver -
>>There are a lots of books on temperament. Which one are you asking about?
>
>
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