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Johann Sebastian Bach A MUSICAL OFFERING BWV 1079 selection played by pianist Joshua Pierce, bassoonist Johnny Reinhard, & violinists Dan Auerbach & Julianne Klopotic in Werckmeister III tuning

from INTONATIONALLY INFORMED - John Dowland, Gilles de Binchois, Georg Philipp Telemann, Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giuseppe Tartini, Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn, Johannes Brahms: AMERICAN FESTIVAL OF MICROTONAL MUSIC by Johnny Reinhard

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Concert: #116
Date: May 1, 2008
Place: Church of the Epiphany
Second Avenue & East 22nd Street, NYC

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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) inherited a tuning that was “well-tempered,” noted for ease of modulation and for minute but recognizable variations between interval sizes throughout 12 major and 12 minor keys keys. Werckmeister III tuning was the primary embossment on the Baroque, which was to evade the claustrophobic prescriptions of either meantone or other spiraling irregular tunings. The tuning was first published by Andreas Werckmeister in his Orgel-Probe (1681). A MUSICAL OFFERING offers some tantalizing contradictions. Frederick the Great instigated the setting following a desire by the composer to see his newest grandchild. The court under Frederick the Great used utilized an extended sixth comma meantone, and therefore could not play Bach’s music because it required circular well temperament. Bach had only intended it for local consumption, making only100 copies of the work, and distributing them about. These canons were famously solved and published by Bach’s prominent student, Johann Philipp Kirnberger. This music contains rare examples of Bach writing in three parts without a continuo. The particular key of C minor in Werckmeister III tuning offers a sentiment that places each note lower in pitch in comparison to its equal temperament counterparts. In Werckmeister III tuning there are 39 different melodic intervals produced at six cents apart (1200 cents to the octave). The tuning is given below in cents. For more detail see “Bach and Tuning” by Johnny Reinhard available from the AFMM on its website, www.afmm.org

Werckmeister Preferred Chromatic (Werckmeister III tuning)

C C# D Eb E F F# G G# A Bb B
0 90 192 294 390 498 588 696 792 888 996 1092

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from INTONATIONALLY INFORMED - John Dowland, Gilles de Binchois, Georg Philipp Telemann, Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giuseppe Tartini, Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn, Johannes Brahms: AMERICAN FESTIVAL OF MICROTONAL MUSIC, released October 8, 2018
Julianne Klopotic & Dan Auerbach, violins
Johnny Reinhard, bassoon i
Joshua Pierce, piano in Werckmeister III tuning

Marc Weinert, piano tuner

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