Hi Evan, I once tried an experiment by a Jacob Collier on a video where he sings a natural ( non tempered ) 3rd over say C and G at the piano, filling in the triad. Is astounding how the ear tends to sing the "prettier", more resonant natural interval, while the equal tempered 3rd on the piano sounds pale and dull in comparison. Equal temperament might be like the " mp3 of tuning " ?. A compression of the color and individuality of each key that non equal tempered systems provide. Fascinating topic, thank you for bringing it out. #PopJazzMetalWerkmeister too !.Cheers.
The equal-tempered chorale is bland and 'pale' compared to the KB temperament, in which dissonance seems heightened and consonance seems richer/more resonant -- so there's a more expressive contrast between dissonance/consonance.
Would be fun to hear the excerpt in KB temperament (or Werckmeister iii, or whatever) played in the original key, then transposed to a remote key (e.g. a tritone or half-step away), in order to bring out the individual distinctiveness that a Wohl-temperirit tuning gives to each key.
-- Also, I finished reading Ruth T's book on proportion and will email you my thoughts this weekend (I hope)
There's a lot of weirdness in the KB temperament, I can't imagine people singing like that?
Is a chorale sort of a weird choice? I feel like singers on the more out there dissonances would probably be drawn in to tuning their pitches to closer to pure intervals that would perhaps randomly not fit into any specific temperament? I could be wrong.
I don't want to sound like a rube but the equal tempered version sounds pretty fine to me.
Also temperament is spelled kinda funny. Temp - er - a - ment
Thank you WTF.
There is a wonderful temperament (extended 1/6 syntonic comma meantone) which works very well on stringed instruments.
Hi Evan, I once tried an experiment by a Jacob Collier on a video where he sings a natural ( non tempered ) 3rd over say C and G at the piano, filling in the triad. Is astounding how the ear tends to sing the "prettier", more resonant natural interval, while the equal tempered 3rd on the piano sounds pale and dull in comparison. Equal temperament might be like the " mp3 of tuning " ?. A compression of the color and individuality of each key that non equal tempered systems provide. Fascinating topic, thank you for bringing it out. #PopJazzMetalWerkmeister too !.Cheers.
Thanks for the informative demo.
The equal-tempered chorale is bland and 'pale' compared to the KB temperament, in which dissonance seems heightened and consonance seems richer/more resonant -- so there's a more expressive contrast between dissonance/consonance.
Would be fun to hear the excerpt in KB temperament (or Werckmeister iii, or whatever) played in the original key, then transposed to a remote key (e.g. a tritone or half-step away), in order to bring out the individual distinctiveness that a Wohl-temperirit tuning gives to each key.
-- Also, I finished reading Ruth T's book on proportion and will email you my thoughts this weekend (I hope)
Unequal for me. Like life 😎
There's a lot of weirdness in the KB temperament, I can't imagine people singing like that?
Is a chorale sort of a weird choice? I feel like singers on the more out there dissonances would probably be drawn in to tuning their pitches to closer to pure intervals that would perhaps randomly not fit into any specific temperament? I could be wrong.
I don't want to sound like a rube but the equal tempered version sounds pretty fine to me.
Also temperament is spelled kinda funny. Temp - er - a - ment