<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 1:59 PM, david <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gnome@hawaii.rr.com">gnome@hawaii.rr.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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The real interesting measure of perception/influence of music on thought might require use of functional MRI scanning, which can show the actual electrical activity in the brain.</blockquote><div> <br>Yes I forgot to mention brain-wave patterns. Ultimately any such 'objective-measure' may miss some more subtle influence. Its just that a crude idea may be better than no idea.<br>
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Coming back to Bach: If he was not interested in tunings he would not have written the Well Tempered clavier.<br>
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If he was interested in promoting equal temperament he would have called it the Equal tempered Clavier<br>
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There were plenty of tunings in Bach's day. If music over the centuries had NOT settled on a standard tuning that essentially displaced the others, would modern music have been experimenting with alternative tunings?<div>
<div></div><br></div></blockquote></div><br>I dont understand...<br><br>As far as I can see(hear?) today's technology makes possible musical experiments (including but not limited to tuning) that could not have been dreamt of 20 years ago -- leave aside Bach<br>