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Topic: Well temperament

	Well v.s. equal temperament
		Bach's motivation for composing the WTC was to demonstrate the feasability of composing in well temperament and to demostrate the varying key colors in well tempered tuning as one progresses around the circle of fifths.
		Well temperament represented a departure from the various meantone tunings that were used in earlier music.
		Equal temperament is appropriate for some music of the 20th century, especially atonal music, and music based on the whole tone scale, but not for the works of the 18th and 19th centuries.
	www.math.uwaterloo.ca /~mrubinst/tuning/tuning.html (1354 words)

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		Well temperaments are a form of musical tuning, also known as circular temperaments, or irregular temperaments.
		Any tuning system which is not equal temperament but which tunes the chromatic scale in a way suitable for a keyboard instrument and in such a way that music in any key can be played in tune is a well temperament.
		Well temperaments evolved in the baroque period, were current in the classical period, and survived into the late nineteenth centuary.
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