Klarinet Archive - Posting 000025.txt from 2008/09

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Rachmaninoff Vocalise Op. 34 No. 14
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:07:11 -0400

> Yes ! As well as how certain keys are "perceived" by the human brain.

The problem I have with this is "history". The key's basis itself has
shifted - the "standard tuning", whatever that means in any one locality
has shifted. If you base a key on A=420, or A=435, or A=440, or A=442, or
..., the mathematical relationships between the notes are retained, but
the frequency shifts for all the notes. One of the supposed reasons for
ever-increasing frequency of the basis is for strings to sound "brighter",
which, if true, might make the "sound of the key" different from when the
composer created the piece.

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