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	Andreas Werckmeister - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Andreas Werckmeister (November 30, 1645 – October 26, 1706) was an organist, music theorist, and composer of the Baroque era.
		Born in Benneckenstein, Werckmeister attended schools in Nordhausen and Quedlinburg.
		Werckmeister's writings were well known to Johann Sebastian Bach, in particular his writings on counterpoint.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Andreas_Werckmeister (278 words)

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		Werckmeister's well temperament published in 1681 was a continuation of the earlier process of altering meantone temperament to be more practical.
		Werckmeister included the descriptions of several temperaments in his books, but he is famous only for his temperament known as the "Werckmeister III" published in 1681 and 1691.
		Since the Werckmeister III temperament roughly followed the key-signature rules of tonality that had been developing, the temperament can be classed as a musical temperament more than as a scientific temperament such as equal temperament.
	www.frankfrench.name /gallery.htm (4659 words)

	Well temperament - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The most used system immediately before Werckmeister was meantone in which one fifth (usually E♭–G♯) was nearly two commas wider than pure, and four major thirds were also very wide.
		However, Werckmeister realised that these "subsemitonia", as he called them, were unnecessary, and even counterproductive in music with chromatic progressions and extensive modulations.
		He described a series of tunings where enharmonic notes had the same pitch: in other words, the same note was used as both (say) E♭ and D♯, thereby "bringing the keyboard into the form of a circle".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Well_temperament (670 words)

	Andreas Werckmeister
		Though not educated at a university, Werckmeister was widely read in classical as well as contemporary literature on theology, mathematics, philosophy and music.
		Werckmeister was as celebrated an organ examiner as he was an organist.
		Werckmeister is also important for other reasons, particularly his richly documented testimony of what music meant to a Protestant church organist and theorist about 1700.
	emc.elte.hu /~pinter/werck.html (1340 words)

	Werckmeister Harmonies (Tarr, 2000)
		He believes that the 12 tone musical scale developed by Andreas Werckmeister has created a faulty foundation for all music written since and since all this music is inherently false, even the masterpieces of the past several centuries have failed to achieve the perfection that most people claim they have.
		György's obsessive need for perfect order and eradication of all impurities mirrors that of the fascists later in the film, yet he is also representative of the impotence of intellectuals against the hysteria of the masses and the oppressive force of those in power.
		Although this is the most obvious theme that Werckmeister Harmonies touches on, it is dealt with on a large scale inviting multiple interpretations and in a style that achieves its own balanced harmony expressing feelings of wonder, melancholy, hope and despair in the form of a beautiful tragedy.
	www.cinematicreflections.com /WerckmeisterHarmonies.html (686 words)

	CD Baby: JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH, JOHANN MICHAEL BACH, ANDREAS WERCKMEISTER: EARLY - American Festival of Microtonal ...
		Andreas Werckmeister (1645-1706) is credited for describing the "circle" of 12 major and minor keys through "well temperament" for the first time in history.
		Werckmeister's most important treatise is Muscalische Temperatur (Musical Temperament), which remains untranslated in published form.
		While Werckmeister's well-known theoretical works on tuning systems represented significant advances and opened new doors in the realm of harmonic relationships, including the possibility of movement through the complete circle of fifths, this cantata is conservative in matters of harmonic progressions.
	cdbaby.com /cd/pitchrecs2 (1774 words)

	Werckmeister well-temperaments - 12-tone musical tunings
		Andreas Werckmeister proposed a number of temperaments which fall into the category now known as "well-temperaments", also called "circulating" or "irregular" temperaments.
		In contrast to the various meantone tunings, which are based on tempering by fractions of the syntonic comma, Werckmeister's well-temperaments are all based on tempering by fractions of the pythagorean comma.
		The 4 "5ths" between C:G:D:A and B:F# are tuned 1/4 of a pythagorean comma narrow, and all the rest of the "5ths" are tuned to the Pythagorean 3:2 ratio.
	tonalsoft.com /enc/w/werckmeister.aspx (959 words)

	DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln \| An English translation and commentary on Andreas Werckmeister's ...
		An English translation and commentary on Andreas Werckmeister's 'Organum Gruningense Redivivum Oder kurtze Beschreibung des in der Grueningischen Schlos-Kirchen beruehmten Orgel-Wercks Wie dasselbe anfangs erbauet und beschaffen gewesen: Und wie es anitzo auf allergnaedigsten Befehl Sr.
		Andreas Werckmeister (1645-1706), one of Germany's leading music theorists at the turn of the eighteenth century, wrote both treatises on music theory and works concerning organ building.
		Werckmeister was summoned by Friedrich I, King of Prussia, to advise and inspect the renovation work that Christoph Contius did at the organ at Groningen.
	digitalcommons.unl.edu /dissertations/AAI9826090 (366 words)

	The Jewish Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Allegory or parable, “Werckmeister Harmonies,” which opens this week at Anthology Film Archives for a two-week run, is the first masterpiece of the new decade, a film as that is simultaneously horrifying and beautiful and one that will resonate powerfully with any Jewish audience or any group of New Yorkers today.
		Tarr, whose work is the subject of a complete retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art beginning this weekend, is the director and co-writer of a series of stubbornly difficult, magnificently rewarding films about the grim aftermath of the fall of communism in his native Hungary.
		“Werckmeister Harmonies” is just cryptic enough, ambiguous enough to resist too specific a reading, but the echoes of the Shoah are unmistakable and the message about the suppressed rage of a voiceless underclass is all too clear as well.
	www.thejewishweek.com /news/newscontent.php3?artid=5165&print=yes (962 words)

	Musica mathematica by Pieter Bakker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Bartolus takes over a tuning designed by Andreas Reinhard, published in his Monochordum (Leipzig, 1604): the phrygian scale is divided into 48 parts and related to the proportions of the universe.
		Werckmeister sees that the tuning needs to be tempered first.
		Werckmeister's tunings known as Werckmeister III and Werckmeister IV are irrigular circular.
	www.hetorgel.nl /e2002-02a.htm (188 words)

	Other "Bach" temperaments - www.larips.com
		The additional piece of tempering is given to the fifth F-C. Claudio di Veroli, in 1981 response to this Barnes article, suggested the use of the popular "Vallotti" temperament (which happens to be identical with this Barnes temperament on 11 of the 12 notes, but with a slightly lower B).
		Six from the 1680s-90s, by Werckmeister and Bendeler, constrain Bach to be stuck with old-fashioned layouts, without providing evidence that he would have preferred any of these.
		Andreas Sparschuh in 1998 was, to my knowledge, the first person in modern times to suggest that the drawing at the top of Bach's WTC title page means something in specifying a temperament.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~bpl/larips/bachtemps.html (5711 words)

	Neil Young's Film Lounge
		Exotic, alluring, referring (we're told at one point) to the musical theories of one Andreas Werckmeister, whose researches concentrated as much on the gaps between notes as the notes themselves.
		And the scene in which we see the police chief's two young children is symbolism of the clunkiest kind: while daddy raves drunkenly in Tunde's bedroom, his kids are left unattended at home.
		Werckmeister Harmoniak : Hungary (Hun/Ger/Fr) 2000 : TARR Bela and HRANITZKY Agnes : 143 mins
	www.jigsawlounge.co.uk /film/content/view/346/0 (1410 words)

	Re: [earlym-l] Re: McIntosh and musical affectation
		Andreas Werckmeister, however, devised at least three temperaments, solving this problem.
		Bach definitely knew Werckmeister, as he has been involved with various of his organs.
		Before those flame wars, it was commonly assumed Bach used Werckmeister III, as that temperament does the most to make as many intervals as possible sound 'well'.
	www.talkaboutthemusic.com /group/rec.music.early/messages/76419.html (311 words)

	American Festival of Microtonal Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Arnstadt organ, built by master organ builder Wender, was proscribed for Werckmeister tuning according to a description of Wender's preferences given by Leipzig's Kuhnau.
		In Werckmeister III tuning there are 39 different melodic intervals produced at six cents apart (1200 cents to the octave).
		It is likely that the Bach brothers (the uncles) had already worked out the "natural consequence" of Werckmeister III in its relation to an earlier quarter-comma meantone rival (or "Praetorian" tuning), long before young Sebastian was on the Thuringian scene.
	www.afmm.org /index.php?rurl=pitchrecnf.php&purl=PitchCD/early.html (1435 words)

	American Festival of Microtonal Music; Werckmeister tuning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Arnstadt organ built by master organbuilder Wender was proscribed for Werckmeister tuning based on a description of Wender's preferences by Leipzig's Kuhnau.
		And Bach's cousin Walther studied with Werckmeister in Halberstadt and praised this master in his 1732 Musikalisches Lexikon, the first German language encyclopedia of music.
		In Werckmeister III tuning there are 39 different melodic intervals produced at approximately 6 cents apart (1200 cents to the octave).
	www.afmm.org /werck.html (282 words)

	Werckmeister Harmonies / Damnation DVD - MovieMail UK
		Though Tarr has explicitly denied allegorical intent, it is hard not to read the situation of a rotting whale acting as a catalyst for unleashing powerful and unruly new energies as a comment on the last days of communism in Hungary.
		In the extraordinary beginning to the film, an astonishing ten-minute shot that is a short film in its own right, Valuska arrives at a bar at closing time and organises a happy-drunk re-enactment of the circulation of the planets around the sun.
		Containing shots that last up to fifteen minutes at a time, Werckmeister Harmonies is a nightmarish vision of a society duped by political demagogues and distracted by circuses, being led into a cycle of violence and despair.
	www.moviemail-online.co.uk /films/12299.html (861 words)

	Rotten Tomatoes: The Vine: _-=DobeeZ=-_
		Werckmeister Harmonies is a 145 min film and was composed of only 39 shots, which is really amazing.
		Maybe it was because I had no idea what the title of the film meant or who Andreas Werckmeister was, contributed to why I was confused with Eszter's monologue.
		Werckmeister Harmonies is must see film, with multiple jaw dropping scene that'll the viewer will never forget.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /vine/journal_comments.php?journalid=37620&entryid=297653 (831 words)

	Werckmeister Harmonies \| The Onion - America's Finest News Source
		It's a film of setpieces: Rudolph using the local drunks to illustrate how the solar system moves, his uncle explaining in detail the damage done to modern music by theorist Andreas Werckmeister, a long march through town that ends with a riot at a hospital, and so on.
		Werckmeister Harmonies may be about how cycles of political change mirror the universal cycles of death and rebirth, but it's more about the sound of trudging feet for minute after hypnotic minute, and the motion of a shadow slowly encroaching on a row of buildings.
		Over two hours and 20 minutes, not much actually happens, and Tarr creates a mood so lulling that even the rare scenes of dialogue can be hard to follow.
	www.theonion.com /content/node/46088 (396 words)

	The ‘Defect’ of Werckmeister by Eddy Mul (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It is possible to discern three periods in the development of Andreas Werckmeister’s attitude toward temperament.
		In the third period (1702-1707), Werckmeister prefers equal temperament, because it offers the possibility of modulating and transposing without bounds.
		Werckmeister interprets equal temperament as an example of the way devout and well-tempered humans can live with God in eternal harmony.
	www.hetorgel.nl /e2001-02c.htm (105 words)

	heuriskein ευρισκειν: werckmeister harmonies
		thus the premise, as i could glean it, of bela tarr's werckmeister harmonies (2000, just out on DVD a coupla weeks ago), easily the most captivating film i've seen since me and you and everyone we know.
		werckmeister harmonies feels to me like jarmusch meets herzog -- long b&w takes a la stranger than paradise that create a dreamy irrational storyscape a la heart of glass.
		[NB: andreas werckmeister (1645-1706) coined the term well-tempered in reference to the system of tuning that regularizes 12 half-steps to each octave at the expense of mathematically pure intervals, the system that has dominated western music since at least bach.
	heuriskein.blogspot.com /2006/03/werckmeister-harmonies.html (500 words)

	Movie Habit: Review of Werckmeister Harmonies (2000), ****
		Andreas Werckmeister divided the octave into twelve half-step tones.
		In other words, Werckmeister is Adam or Prometheus, giving the gift of knowledge — once the realm of the divine — to man. János’ uncle is of the old school, saying that we were better off with God’s music.
		When Andreas Werckmeister developed the chromatic twelve-tone scale, replaced the divine tuning with a "scientific" one.
	www.moviehabit.com /reviews/wer_b806.shtml (1321 words)

	FILM REVIEW; Yielding To the Power of Persuasion - New York Times
		In his haunting, beauteous ''Werckmeister Harmonies,'' the avant-garde Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr meditates on mankind's place in the cosmos, the wonders of God and the timeless immanence of evil and irrationality that loose anarchy and invite tyranny.
		Flowing like a torturous dream on the brilliantly composed fl-and- white cinematography directed by Gabor Medvigy and an elegiac score by Mihaly Vig, the events of ''Werckmeister Harmonies,'' based on ''The Melancholy of Resistance,'' a novel by Laszlo Krasznahorkai, are witnessed by a young postman.
		He is Janos Valushka (portrayed by Lars Rudolph), whose shaggy hair, gaunt visage and deep-set eyes eloquently communicate innate decency, innocent concern, horror and shock at the political upheaval that overwhelms him.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9B01E6DF1E3CF933A25753C1A9679C8B63 (617 words)

	Johann Sebastian Bach: the well tempered tuning is unequal
		Andreas Werckmeister hat dieses System erfunden, wie meine Publikationen beweisen.
		This welltempered system is specified via the fundamental C-major triad, the sharpened third c-e of which beats at the same rate as the flattened welltempered fifth c-g in optimum mutual adaptation.
		The inventor of this system was Andreas Werckmeister, as my publications show.
	plaza.ufl.edu /wnb/baroque_temperament.htm (1615 words)

	werckmeister
		"Werckmeister Harmonies" is based on the 1989 (the year when state socialism in Hungary ended) novel ''The Melancholy of Resistance'' by László Krasznahorkai (he also wrote the novel for Satantango).
		The film opens just before closing time at a local pub, where the twentysomething Janos uses some of the drunk patrons as models of the sun, earth and moon to demonstrate a cosmological model of a lunar eclipse.
		Werckmeister Harmonies ends in the postapocalyptic brightly lit morning after the riot with the army in control and Janos fleeing town to save his skin because he somehow has gotten on the "clean town" list of insurgents, even if he doesn't have an idea why.
	www.sover.net /~ozus/werckmeister.htm (701 words)

	village voice > film > Fat Girl; Werckmeister Harmonies by J. Hoberman
		Béla Tarr's Werckmeister Harmonies, opening Friday at Anthology, is a totally sustained immersion in the magisterially bleak, voluptuously monochromatic, undeniably beautiful universe of muddy villages and cell-like rooms that the Hungarian filmmaker has created in collaboration with reclusive novelist László Krasznahorkai.
		This intimation of celestial order is echoed by the film's title—it's named for the 17th-century organist and musical theorist Andreas Werckmeister, who divided the octave into 12 equal tones to create a system of major and minor notes.
		Like Sátántangó, Werckmeister Harmonies is a work of bravura filmmaking—mainly a series of extremely long, largely mobile takes, edited without the normal pattern of shot-countershot.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0141/hoberman.php (1471 words)

	Artificial Eye -Werckmeister Harmonies- ART249 DVD
		These films generate a dreamlike tension between their sheer visual power - the brilliant monochrome photography, long takes and intricate camera movements - and their implacable elusiveness - minimal dialogue as characters struggle to find their way, encountering irrational, seemingly demonic forces.
		The unfolding events are witnessed by János Valuska (Lars Rudolph), who is unable to stem the tide of revolt.
		WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES is Béla Tarr’s lyrical meditation on mankind’s place in the cosmos, exploring the precarious boundaries between civilisation and barbarism, harmony and discord.
	www.artificial-eye.com /dvd/ART249dvd/main_a.html (261 words)

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		Among the most successful was Andreas Werckmeister (see Fig.
		Figure 4: Andreas Werckmeister created many temperaments, including this one, which is now called Werckmeister III.
		During the same period in history, other musicians experimented with equal temperament, in which the 12 notes were equally spaced within the octave.
	www.iaekm.org /article22.htm (1928 words)

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