Uploaded November 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
UPDATE 31 March 2022: Based on many comments and suggestions, I decided to make a series of three videos in which I explain some basic concepts relating to temperaments, provide demonstrations of intervals, chords, and short passages played in different temperaments, and discuss how temperaments enhance musical expression. The links to the first two videos are below, and I will update this notice when I post the third video. I am grateful for your input, and hope you will find these videos helpful!
Exploring Temperaments, Part 1: youtube.com/watch?v=X0qtKpsNsIs
Exploring Temperaments, Part 2, Listening Strategies and Demonstration: youtube.com/watch?v=5zXWXZIiuT8
Support the channel at patreon.com/johnmoraitis
Thank you for your support!
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
2:18 Quarter-comma meantone presentation
4:40 Rameau presentation
5:38 Well Tempered Clavier and circulating temperaments
6:48 Kirnberger III presentation
8:00 Why this prelude?
9:11 Concluding remarks
10:22 Performance in quarter-comma meantone
12:36 Performance in Rameau
14:45 Performance in Kirnberger III
Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude in C major, BWV 846 (from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I).
Performed in three different temperaments:
I. Quarter-comma meantone
II. Rameau
III. Kirnberger III
John Moraitis, spinet.
Spinet: Neupert "Zenti" (Bamberg, 2008). A=415 Hz.
UPDATE 31 March 2022: Based on many comments and suggestions, I decided to make a series of three videos in which I explain some basic concepts relating to temperaments, provide demonstrations of intervals, chords, and short passages played in different temperaments, and discuss how temperaments enhance musical expression. The links to the first two videos are below, and I will update this notice when I post the third video. I am grateful for your input, and hope you will find these videos helpful!
Exploring Temperaments, Part 1: youtube.com/watch?v=X0qtKpsNsIs
Exploring Temperaments, Part 2, Listening Strategies and Demonstration: youtube.com/watch?v=5zXWXZIiuT8
Support the channel at patreon.com/johnmoraitis
Thank you for your support!
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
2:18 Quarter-comma meantone presentation
4:40 Rameau presentation
5:38 Well Tempered Clavier and circulating temperaments
6:48 Kirnberger III presentation
8:00 Why this prelude?
9:11 Concluding remarks
10:22 Performance in quarter-comma meantone
12:36 Performance in Rameau
14:45 Performance in Kirnberger III
Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude in C major, BWV 846 (from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I).
Performed in three different temperaments:
I. Quarter-comma meantone
II. Rameau
III. Kirnberger III
John Moraitis, spinet.
Spinet: Neupert "Zenti" (Bamberg, 2008). A=415 Hz.
