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Originally Posted by lemur821  Yes. Well tempered is an attempt to mix some of the good stuff about just intonation (pleasing intervals) with the good stuff from equal tempered (transposability). |
yep, well temperaments (meantone, werkmeister, kimberger) are a sort of middle ground between being in tune and being able to modulate. but the key word that should be used is 'compromise.' justly tuned music systems are not temperaments at all, because the intervals are not 'tempered,' or altered, from their natural state.
there's a lot to say about what just intonation is. the textbook definition is: a system of music where frequency relationships can be represented by simple, whole number ratios. that basically means that the peaks and valleys of pitches' wavelengths will line up at certain points.
