6 Apr
2007
6 Apr
'07
1:21 a.m.
On 4/5/07, Cesare Marilungo <cesare(a)poeticstudios.com> wrote:
Brad Fuller wrote:
As I understand it there's a great deal of speculation about what
actual tunings he was writing for. I've seen where people "solved"
it. I never found it that compelling, as I am more interested in
non-tempered tunings. I'm glad to know he wasn't using 12-tET, and
often tell people who were misinformed, but that's about where I stop
reading.
-Chuckk
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Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
That was my
understanding as well - that is: his music was well liked.
In fact, as he aged, he gained quite a reputation around and outside
the country.
And he composed in unequal temperaments, too: After
all, Bach was a young whippersnapper at the time.
I always understood that JS Bach was fairly well-liked. He made a
living as a musician, unlike 99.99% of the people alive at the time.