Re: Quicky about naming a chord

"paramucho" <ian@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:59:01 -0400, "Tom K."
> <tkorth1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>Well, is Bach's WTC before 12TET, that is are you differentiating
between
>>12TET and "Well Temperament"?  If so, how does the Urtext manage a D# 
>>minor
>>Fugue where the Czerny Edition notates the very same fugue in Eb minor? 
>>And
>>hasn't (Western) piano music always assumed F#-Gb equivalency?
>
> Bach wrote for well-tempering, which is not the same as equal
> temperament, but which does sup****t all twelve keys. There was a lot
> of debate in the latter part of the 1700s about retaining the
> individual character of the well-tempered keys. Lester deals with
>
> Bach produced most of the preludes in the really remote keys by
> transposing pieces he'd written in simpler keys.
>
> F#-Gb "equivalency" is not necessarily an *identity* relation****p.
> Some early keyboards had split black-note keys for notes
>

Thanks, Ian - that's why I mentioned piano music specifically to exclude 
earlier keyboard possibilities.

Tom K.