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ET arose from the need to play music in all 12 keys on a moment's notice without any one of those keys sounding like the obvious dump stat. It's a compromise t
by BeFlatXIII 5y ago
ET arose from the need to play music in all 12 keys on a moment's notice without any one of those keys sounding like the obvious dump stat. It's a compromise to play a song that is strictly diatonic in a single key in ET.
- PaulDavisThe1st 5y agoRight, but thats precisely the tradeoff that composing with significant harmonic motion requires. If you're going to do purely melodic, or purely modal, work, then sure, you don't need it and you could argue that it's even "harmful".
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