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Andreas Werckmeister

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142: 175:. According to George Buelow, "No other writer of the period regarded music so unequivocally as the end result of God’s work". Yet in spite of his focus on counterpoint, Werckmeister's work emphasized underlying harmonic principles. 138:. The system distributes 1/4 of the comma to the four fifths G–D, D–A, A–E, and B–F♯, leaving the others as pure 3:2 ratios; this tended toward somewhat wider thirds than in equal temperament. 385: 478: 473: 433: 126:(1691), in which he described a system now referred to as well temperament (in which all keys are playable, as in J. S. Bach's later work 443: 468: 463: 448: 458: 453: 438: 110:(1689). Also some organ works remain: Canzon in a-minor, Canzona in d-minor, Praeludium ex G, Canzonetta in D-major. 67: 381: 71: 402: 401:
Well Tempered based on Werckmeisters last book Musikalische Paradoxal-Discourse (1707) is Equal Temperament see:
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New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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Bio (in French) which contains details of locations of surviving copies of Werckmeister's publications
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that resulted in all tonalities sounding acceptable on the keyboard. This important step toward
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Bartel, Dietrich (2015). "Andreas Werckmeister's final tuning: the path to equal temperament".
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Werckmeister is best known today as a theorist, in particular through his writings
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https://www.academia.edu/5210832/18th_Century_Quotes_on_J.S._Bachs_Temperament
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Die nothwendigsten Anmerckungen und Reglen, wie der Bassus continuus...
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Of his compositions only a booklet remains: pieces for violin with
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Werckmeister's writings – particularly his writings on
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https://www.free-scores.com/sheetmusic?p=aXAgQAhxny#
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Index

music theorist
Baroque era
temperament
equal temperament
harmonic
Western
Benneckenstein
Nordhausen
Quedlinburg
Heinrich Christian Werckmeister
Heinrich Victor Werckmeister
organist
Hasselfelde
Elbingerode
Martinskirche
Halberstadt
basso continuo
The Well-Tempered Clavier
Werckmeister temperament

counterpoint
Johann Sebastian Bach
invertible counterpoint
Kepler
Harmonice Mundi
Werckmeister Harmonies
doi
10.1093/em/cav047
"Equal Temperament"

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