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In my understanding and all the more knowldgeable people than me that have taught me music, that's absolutely not correct. Equal temperament is just the water y
by narag 5y ago
In my understanding and all the more knowldgeable people than me that have taught me music, that's absolutely not correct. Equal temperament is just the water you swim in, for all western music since Bach.
"Natural" tuning by integer fractions would sound very unusual to everybody.
- mrob 5y agoDo you find Barbershop music to sound "very unusual"? The defining feature of the style is just intonation (and microtonal just intonation at that, because a harmonic seventh can't be adequately approximated by 12 equal temperament).
- kzrdude 5y agoI think you're mixing it up with some other aspect of temperament. Take the example barbershop's use of justly intonated chords. It doesn't sound unusual, it sounds very clean and pure. Take the example of Jacob Collier's vocal arrangements, he likes to sing the chords justly intonated too. He has various explanations of this on youtube. Also gifted with an insane ear so that he can clearly sing/explain the difference. Maybe this is an ok explanation of Collier. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHC2XNGerW4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHC2XNGerW4
- kzrdude 5y agoMaybe this is a good explanation for violin, why equal temperament is not something you can follow as a violinist https://www.violinschool.com/knowledgebase/violin-tuners-intonation/ https://www.violinschool.com/knowledgebase/violin-tuners-int... (I don't know much about playing the violin!) Intonation is a living thing - you use your ear, it's a feedback system - listen to your own instrument and those you are playing with. > Intonation is relative. When playing in an ensemble, care must be taken to blend with the others in the group.
- kgwgk 5y agoThe example at 3:38-4:51 is great.
- narag 5y agoBarbershop? I need a cut already... and I guess some web search. Thank you for the reference, I'll take a look later.