> Gesine wrote: ... The compositions are by Nicolaus Ammerbach, Girolamo
Frescobaldi, and anonymous with the harpsichord tuned in Pythagorean and
Straight Pythagorean, which were the tunings in use at the time of these
compositions.

Yes I know you are just quoting, Gesine, but ...

> David K. wrote: ...  would anyone really be using Pythagorean tuning (of
any sort) at that time?

.... very, very unlikely. Of course, anything goes for an anonymous, but
both Ammerbach and Frescobaldi fully belong to the Meantone era. 

> David K. wrote: Does anybody know what the difference is between
"Pythagorean" and "Straight Pythagorean" might be? 

Strange indeed. Having read for decades all sorts of writings on
temperaments (the good, the bad and the ugly), I have never encountered the
term "Straight Pythagorean". So I googled it and, with the exception of the
Kuhnle record, it always appears in expressions such as "tuned in a straight
Pythagorean tuning", meaning Pythagorean intonation and not any of the other
intonations based on pure intervals ("just intonations"). It is obvious that
either Kuhnle meant something else, or perhaps we have a misinterpretation
by a record-booklet editor. It would not be the first time! We should start
an anthology!

:-)

Best

CDV
http://temper.braybaroque.ie/




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