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Well TemperamentWell 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. In regular temperaments like Pythagorean tuning and meantone temperament all the fifths are the same size, except one (typically Eb-G#) which is badly out of tune (a "wolf fifth"). This means that as long as you stay with keys that don't involve the wolf fifth, eveything is fine, but the remote keys are unusable. Well temperaments have fifths of different sizes (hence the name "irregular temperament"), usually smaller ones round the home keys to get sweet thirds, and bigger ones in the distant keys to make it all add up. In a well temperament you can modulate through all the keys (hence the name circulating temperament), but all the keys have slightly different tuning, hence distinct characters. Well temperaments evolved in the baroque period, were current in the classical period, and survived into the late nineteenth centuary. Bach's Well Tempered Clavier was written for a well tempered instrument (not for equal temperament as is commonly stated). There are many well temperament schemes, some nearer meantone temperament, others nearer equal temperament: - French Temperament Ordinaire
- Kirnberger
- Vallotti
- Werckmeister
- Young
See also: Pythagorean tuning, just intonation, meantone temperament, equal temperament. External links
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