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I'm catching up on Howard Goodall's the Story of Music and he's going on about how wonderful Even temperament is and that it's been used for 300 years.
He's even gone as far to use Bach's well tempered clavier as evidence of even temperament in use at the time.
I'm almost spitting at the screen and contemplating writing a letter of complaint.
In other respects (if you ignore how he has distorted, ignored and simplified history to make his point) it's a good show.
I'm tempted to send him a copy of 'How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony: And Why You Should Care' to teach him the error of his ways.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Equal-Temperament-Ruined-Harmony/dp/0393334201
He's even gone as far to use Bach's well tempered clavier as evidence of even temperament in use at the time.
I'm almost spitting at the screen and contemplating writing a letter of complaint.
In other respects (if you ignore how he has distorted, ignored and simplified history to make his point) it's a good show.
I'm tempted to send him a copy of 'How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony: And Why You Should Care' to teach him the error of his ways.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Equal-Temperament-Ruined-Harmony/dp/0393334201