> On 26 May 2016, at 09:57, Michael Hendry <hendry.mich...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Another phenomenon about which I have doubts involves people who claim that > when they hear music in “sharp” keys (e.g. G, D, A, E) their experience is of > brightness, while the flat keys make for a more sombre sound. I’ve even heard > in a radio interview that this applies to F# and Gb (the one bright, the > other dull). In a symphony orchestra, the string section is tuned in Pythagorean, and by following traditional harmony rules, can be encouraged to play in 5-limit Just Intonation. Moore distant keys, where there are no open strings to rely on, then become difficult to perform, which has in the past been used as a musical effect. For fixed pitch instruments tuned in E12, like pianos, there is no difference though. Also, in Pythagorean tuning, F# is higher than Gb, but it is the reverse in (extended) meantone tunings. If one chooses the wrong E12 enharmonically equivalent note in these tunings, there results a wolf interval, which is pretty descriptive. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
