{"id":136,"date":"2015-02-06T20:19:19","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T20:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/casfaculty.case.edu\/ross-duffin\/?page_id=136"},"modified":"2017-02-02T19:50:23","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T19:50:23","slug":"5-why-i-hate-vallotti-or-is-it-young","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/casfaculty.case.edu\/ross-duffin\/why-i-hate-vallotti-or-is-it-young\/5-why-i-hate-vallotti-or-is-it-young\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I hate Vallotti (or is it Young?) 5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n
Why I hate Vallotti – cont.<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
N<\/span><\/td>\nothing can diminish the flexibility and utility of Vallotti and Young as keyboard temperaments. They may, in fact, suit your needs precisely. But what I have tried to do here is to show that there may be better choices, especially for Baroque ensemble music, and that the unexamined use of a convenient solution is<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
not necessarily the best musical path. It\u2019s not Vallotti per se that I “hate”; it\u2019s Vallotti\u2019s ubiquitous use in situations where it is clearly neither the best historical nor the best musical choice.<\/p>\n

A NOTE ON THE SOUND EXAMPLES:<\/p>\n

The sound examples were produced on a Korg M1 keyboard, down a half step from modern pitch and with temperament approximations set to the nearest whole cent. Neither the whole cent approximations nor the artificial harpsichord sound are ideal for hearing the subtleties of temperaments. I did this merely to ensure that the temperament of the instrument didn\u2019t drift while the examples were being recorded, thus rendering the examples completely useless. I highly recommend tuning these temperaments on your own harpsichord, using either a high quality electronic tuner or, alternatively, the beat\u2013counting method used by many professionals.<\/p>\n

Click below to hear performances in each temperament<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
Sarabande in G Minor<\/p>\nPrelude No. 1 in C Major<\/p>\n
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go to<\/i> 1<\/a> | 2<\/a> | 3<\/a> | 4<\/a> | 5<\/b><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Why I hate Vallotti – cont.<\/b><\/p>\n

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\nothing can diminish the flexibility and utility of Vallotti and Young as keyboard temperaments. They may, in fact, suit your needs precisely. But what I have tried to do here is to show that there may be better choices, especially for Baroque ensemble music, and that the unexamined use of a convenient solution is<\/p>\n

not necessarily the best musical path. It\u2019s not Vallotti per se that I “hate”; it\u2019s Vallotti\u2019s ubiquitous use in situations where it is clearly neither the best historical nor the best musical choice.<\/p>\n

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