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Podcast Ep.2: Where does Whole Beat come from?
🕑 Added 2023-05-27 05:46:06 +0000 UTCHi everyone!
second podcast here on Patreon, this time a very broad topic: where does our beloved WBMP come from? A question many of you asked since the last episode to talk about but a question also that is asked before a lot of times. I mean: a lot lot. And yes, in all the videos published on YouTube you'll get the complete picture but I get that it is hard to connect all of those details together. Therefore these 30 minutes of me talking :-).
By the way, here is a video you should probably watch if you haven't done so before. A video on the Mersenne Paradox so to say:
Hope you enjoy this episode and... let me know your questions in regard of our tempo journey!
Hartelijk,
Wim
Comments
Brilliant as always 🙏🏼⭐️
Excellent podcast! Just curious about one small point ... the ropes you referred to for making a pendulum ... would the timing of the swing have depended upon the weight of the rope(s) used?
probably the main reason was the composer was in most cases still the performer
Excellent. Thanks for the explanation. I'm to the point of just adjusting the tempo to what I enjoy ( almost always Whole Beat! ). I listen to PSearPianist YouTube channel a lot, but I find the majority of his tempi are nearly double what I enjoy...It's like the last 100 years of pianists are distorted and unable to find a middle ground.
An important observation/opinion to the open question of why composers like Mozart didn't use the Mersenne system to mark the tempi of their pieces: I believe it's a good thing that the Mersenne system wasn't used because it would've introduced another level of confusion, namely how long are the foot and the inch? In France alone there were close to 2 dozen different definitions of the basic units of length and mass before they were standardised to the metric system, and these different definitions varied quite a bit, between 25 and 34 cm. So for example, assume Mozart had marked a piece as "pend. 2 ft 6 in", did he mean the units used in Vienna, In Salzburg, in Paris, in ...?
