Tuning the Historical Temperaments by Ear

Tuning the Historical Temperaments by Ear
Title Tuning the Historical Temperaments by Ear PDF eBook
Author Owen Jorgensen
Publisher
Pages 472
Release 1977
Genre History
ISBN

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How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care)

How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care)
Title How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care) PDF eBook
Author Ross W. Duffin
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 197
Release 2008-10-17
Genre Music
ISBN 0393075648

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"A fascinating and genuinely accessible guide....Educating, enjoyable, and delightfully unscary."—Classical Music What if Bach and Mozart heard richer, more dramatic chords than we hear in music today? What sonorities and moods have we lost in playing music in "equal temperament"—the equal division of the octave into twelve notes that has become our standard tuning method? Thanks to How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony, "we may soon be able to hear for ourselves what Beethoven really meant when he called B minor 'black'" (Wall Street Journal).In this "comprehensive plea for more variety in tuning methods" (Kirkus Reviews), Ross W. Duffin presents "a serious and well-argued case" (Goldberg Magazine) that "should make any contemporary musician think differently about tuning" (Saturday Guardian). Some images in the ebook are not displayed owing to permissions issues.

Tuning

Tuning
Title Tuning PDF eBook
Author Owen Jorgensen
Publisher
Pages 830
Release 1991
Genre Music
ISBN

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Tuning the Historical Temperaments by Ear

Tuning the Historical Temperaments by Ear
Title Tuning the Historical Temperaments by Ear PDF eBook
Author Owen Jorgensen
Publisher
Pages 547
Release 1975
Genre
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Meantone Temperaments on Lutes and Viols

Meantone Temperaments on Lutes and Viols
Title Meantone Temperaments on Lutes and Viols PDF eBook
Author David Dolata
Publisher Indiana University Press
Pages 314
Release 2016-07-04
Genre Music
ISBN 0253021464

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Written for musicians by a musician, Meantone Temperaments on Lutes and Viols demystifies tuning systems by providing the basic information, historical context, and practical advice necessary to easily achieve more satisfying tuning results on fretted instruments. Despite the overwhelming organological evidence that many of the finest lutenists, vihuelists, and viola da gamba players in the Renaissance and Baroque eras tuned their instruments in one of the meantone temperaments, most modern early instrument players today still tune to equal temperament. In this handbook richly supplemented with figures, diagrams, and music examples, historical performers will discover why temperaments are necessary and how they work, descriptions of a variety of temperaments, and their application on fretted instruments. This technical book provides downloadable audio tracks and other tools for fretted instrument players to achieve more stable consonances, colorful dissonances, and harmonic progressions that vividly propel the music forward.

A Guide to Musical Temperament

A Guide to Musical Temperament
Title A Guide to Musical Temperament PDF eBook
Author Thomas Donahue
Publisher Scarecrow Press
Pages 252
Release 2005
Genre Music
ISBN 9780810854383

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Author Thomas Donahue assembles new information and material from previous sources, providing a comprehensive outline of theories and a historical overview that fills a neglected niche in music and keyboard reference."--Jacket.

The Arithmetic of Listening

The Arithmetic of Listening
Title The Arithmetic of Listening PDF eBook
Author Kyle Gann
Publisher University of Illinois Press
Pages 316
Release 2019-09-16
Genre Music
ISBN 0252051424

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"Tuning is the secret lens through which the history of music falls into focus," says Kyle Gann. Yet in Western circles, no other musical issue is so ignored, so taken for granted, so shoved into the corners of musical discourse. A classroom essential and an invaluable reference, The Arithmetic of Listening offers beginners the grounding in music theory necessary to find their own way into microtonality and the places it may take them. Moving from ancient Greece to the present, Kyle Gann delves into the infinite tunings available to any musician who feels straitjacketed by obedience to standardized Western European tuning. He introduces the concept of the harmonic series and demonstrates its relationship to equal-tempered and well-tempered tuning. He also explores recent experimental tuning models that exploit smaller intervals between pitches to create new sounds and harmonies. Systematic and accessible, The Arithmetic of Listening provides a much-needed primer for the wide range of tuning systems that have informed Western music. Audio examples demonstrating the musical ideas in The Arithmetic of Listening can be found at: https://www.kylegann.com/Arithmetic.html