Equal-tempered accompaniment and training actively suppress singers’ natural just intonation

Evidence

In addition, he notes some points which tend to work against achieving just tuning, including: ■ choir practice with a piano or other keyboard tuned in equal temperament; ■ listening to recorded and live music in equal temperament; ■ working with choral conductors who are unaware of the implications; ■ presenting an equal tempered chord to start a piece rather than one note; ■ being trained to remain in tune; ■ poor listening skills. — David M. Howard, Jamie Angus, Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, 1392

Categorization

• SHARE: Perfect for one choral-conductor friend — the practical checklist of what kills just intonation in rehearsal.
• XREF: connects to: Singing just-tuned chords predicts rapid pitch drift flat — David M. Howard, Jamie Angus, Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, 1384; Logarithmic quantization suits speech but distorts music beyond tolerance — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 2217

Broader Connections

• Singing just-tuned chords predicts rapid pitch drift flat #complicates (1.00) — David M. Howard, Jamie Angus, Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, 1384
• Logarithmic quantization suits speech but distorts music beyond tolerance #corroborates (0.90) — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 2217