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For 26 years I was a visiting lecturer at Thomas More College (NH), so I am no stranger to lectures on Music Theory and Music History. (I also organized and presented the Chamber Music Performing-Arts series.)
The lecture goes on for more than an hour, but I found it very worthwhile.
In addition to the video, there is also audio-only; a downloadable transcript; and recommendations for further reading.
Bravo Zulu is all I can say!
john
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Way back in the '70s as a music major, I studied in Switzerland for a while, and had the opportunity to learn from the musicologist/musician/acoustician Ernst Levy for a couple of weeks. I'm tellin' ya what, that guy had the biggest ears I've ever seen, literally.
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Hi John,
I've watched the first 22 minutes of the lecture. Very good!, especially on the music history side. I'll watch more later. I hope she gets into the difference between the scale of Just Intonation versus Equal Temperament, etc., 'cause that's an issue.
Thanks for posting this!
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The fact that some wind or brass instruments are hard to play in remote keys is an instrument problem, and not a temperament problem per se (IMHO).
Unless we are talking about pipe organs from the late Middle Ages, as far as I know, keyboards were never tuned to just intonation in only one key--there always was some kind of temperament scheme.
I have written previously about the supposedly rediscovered Bach Spiral temperament (Stereophile). It was not equal temperament. It just was more consonant in the easy keys (F, C, G, D) and more jangly in very remote keys like F# major.
What is lost in going to equal temperament is that individual keys are now all equally out of tune, and so the individual character of each key is missing.
ciao,
john
Hi John. If you're not already familiar with it, check out Terry Riley's "Harp of New Albion" album. He tunes his piano to just intonation in C, which sounds absolutely wonderful, then modulates through all 12 keys. The distant ones sound VERY strange and sour!
"What is lost in going to equal temperament is that individual keys are now all equally out of tune,"Now, THAT is hilarious. (And true!)
Edit: BTW, I watched the rest of the video yesterday. Very nice.
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Edits: 11/29/22
thank you!
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Well done informative and entertaining video.
Thanks!
... but there is so much more. Scales came from the Greeks. ....Dorian Phrigean,Locrean, etc.... each of those scales were tied to a meaning.....happy, lustful, uncomfortable, etc. If you take a tone and double the frequency, that will make an octave, however if you divide the 12 tones equally in tune, it doesn't mathematically work. Bach wrote the Well Tempered clavier which shows that scales can work if tempered....moving the tones a bit flat or sharp to accommodate the errors. etc. etc.
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