ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig) (07/10/85)
> > You might want to reflect on the fact that Bach invented the Western > > system of musical notation, something that EVERY other musician that > > came later owes to him, including Kate Bush. Am I in the wrong universe? Where did this come from? (it ain't so, folks!)
rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) (07/11/85)
>>> You might want to reflect on the fact that Bach invented the Western >>> system of musical notation, something that EVERY other musician that >>> came later owes to him, including Kate Bush. > Am I in the wrong universe? Where did this come from? > (it ain't so, folks!) [KOENIG] I think what they all mean is that Bach was the first to EXPLOIT even- tempered tuning in a compositional setting, by writing the 48 sets of preludes and fugues in the Well-Tempered Clavier, with two sets for each key, major and minor. (Did I get that right?) -- Like a bourbon? (HIC!) Drunk for the very first time... Rich Rosen ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr
mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON) (07/11/85)
> >>> You might want to reflect on the fact that Bach invented the Western > >>> system of musical notation, something that EVERY other musician that > >>> came later owes to him, including Kate Bush. [ME] > > > Am I in the wrong universe? Where did this come from? > > (it ain't so, folks!) [KOENIG] > > I think what they all mean is that Bach was the first to EXPLOIT even- > tempered tuning in a compositional setting, by writing the 48 sets of > preludes and fugues in the Well-Tempered Clavier, with two sets for > each key, major and minor. (Did I get that right?) [ROSEN] > -- Yes you did Marcel Simon
nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan) (07/12/85)
["The black queen chants the funeral march, the cracked brass bells will ring"] >>>> You might want to reflect on the fact that Bach invented the Western >>>> system of musical notation, something that EVERY other musician that >>>> came later owes to him, including Kate Bush. [SIMON] >>> Am I in the wrong universe? Where did this come from? >>> (it ain't so, folks!) [KOENIG] >> I think what they all mean is that Bach was the first to EXPLOIT even- >> tempered tuning in a compositional setting, by writing the 48 sets of >> preludes and fugues in the Well-Tempered Clavier, with two sets for >> each key, major and minor. (Did I get that right?) [ROSEN] > Yes you did. [SIMON] I'm pretty sure that Bach did not invent equal temperament. Therefore, I find it very hard to believe that he was the first to use it either. He might have been the biggest popularizer of it, but by that reasoning then Isaac Asimov and Carl Sagen are the world's greatest scientists. "Some say that knowledge is ho ho ho." Doug Alan nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (or ARPA)