I would say it's actually the key of C minor that hits hard, as it should in this music. The meantone temperament was omnipresent in keyboard music for two centuries! Our ears need a bit of an adjustment, but it makes every key sound special.
@@RhadMusic Yes, and is is especially the A♭ that is tuned as a G♯, that sounds very spicy. There were , at that time already, some people who tuned the G♯ a little higher to make it more serviceable as an A♭, but that will ruin your E major chords, of course. Roger North (a contemporary of Purcell) talks about keys which "by their meer out-of-tunedness have certein characters very serviceable to the purposes of Musick". Consider c minor such a key, and enjoy the music!
Wow this temperament isn't the most charming for this tonality.. It's clear though that some thought went into it, not sure if this is what the composer intended the piece to sound like though
He certainly did! We 're just not used to the sound. Tunings closer to the equal temperament didn't come along until later (18th century), but even those can sound very "special" in pieces with many sharps/flats, and composers used all of their intervals for expressiveness. Equal temperament wasn't used in keyboard instruments until the 20th century.
Lovely. The emotions are always clear in Baroque music. This also sounds like a modern guitar piece.
thanks for not using common tuning
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Impressive! But why did you tune g# if the piece needs ab?
Tuning: 0c: A4 = 440Hz
That's not what historical tunings are about. That's just the reference pitch, but the ratio between all the different intervals is different.
Temperament really acid!
I would say it's actually the key of C minor that hits hard, as it should in this music. The meantone temperament was omnipresent in keyboard music for two centuries! Our ears need a bit of an adjustment, but it makes every key sound special.
@@RhadMusicpraticamente un tema con variazioni . Molto piacevole .
@@RhadMusic Yes, and is is especially the A♭ that is tuned as a G♯, that sounds very spicy. There were , at that time already, some people who tuned the G♯ a little higher to make it more serviceable as an A♭, but that will ruin your E major chords, of course. Roger North (a contemporary of Purcell) talks about keys which "by their meer out-of-tunedness have certein characters very serviceable to the purposes of Musick". Consider c minor such a key, and enjoy the music!
Pretty sure this was composed by Croft, not Purcell?
I hadn't heard about this! Through a quick search I see people say it's doubtful, it may be Croft's but most people attribute it to Purcell.
@ It is the first movement of Croft’s Suite No 3 in a complete manuscript, but the ground also has another separate manuscript
Yes you 're right! I'm listening to Croft's suite now! It's beautiful! Unfortunately I can't find sheet music.
Is it meantone Tuning?
Yes! I always note the tuning in the description.
Wow this temperament isn't the most charming for this tonality.. It's clear though that some thought went into it, not sure if this is what the composer intended the piece to sound like though
He certainly did! We 're just not used to the sound. Tunings closer to the equal temperament didn't come along until later (18th century), but even those can sound very "special" in pieces with many sharps/flats, and composers used all of their intervals for expressiveness. Equal temperament wasn't used in keyboard instruments until the 20th century.