Tuning and Temperament - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tuning and Temperament write by J. Murray Barbour. This book was released on 2013-07-04. Tuning and Temperament available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This classic chronicle of the longstanding challenges of tuning and temperament devotes a chapter to each principal theory, features a glossary and numerous tables, and requires only minimal background in music theory.
How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care)
How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care) write by Ross W. Duffin. This book was released on 2008-10-17. How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "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.
Temperament
Temperament - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Temperament write by Stuart Isacoff. This book was released on 2003-02-04. Temperament available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Few music lovers realize that the arrangement of notes on today’s pianos was once regarded as a crime against God and nature, or that such legendary thinkers as Pythagoras, Plato, da Vinci, Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Newton and Rousseau played a role in the controversy. Indeed, from the time of the Ancient Greeks through the eras of Renaissance scientists and Enlightenment philosophers, the relationship between the notes of the musical scale was seen as a key to the very nature of the universe. In this engaging and accessible account, Stuart Isacoff leads us through the battles over that scale, placing them in the context of quarrels in the worlds of art, philosophy, religion, politics and science. The contentious adoption of the modern tuning system known as equal temperament called into question beliefs that had lasted nearly two millenia–and also made possible the music of Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Debussy, and all who followed. Filled with original insights, fascinating anecdotes, and portraits of some of the greatest geniuses of all time, Temperament is that rare book that will delight the novice and expert alike.
Meantone Temperaments on Lutes and Viols
Meantone Temperaments on Lutes and Viols - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Meantone Temperaments on Lutes and Viols write by David Dolata. This book was released on 2016-07-04. Meantone Temperaments on Lutes and Viols available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Guide to Musical Temperament write by Thomas Donahue. This book was released on 2005. A Guide to Musical Temperament available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
