Tuning and Temperament: A Historical Survey Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is a standard source on scales and temeraments, and their history. It compares and contrasts Pythagorean tuning, just intonation, meantone, irregular temperaments, and finally equal temperament. Barbourdisplays a strong predisposition towards twelve tone equal temperament inthis work, and interprets the history of scales and temperaments as aninexorable march towards equal temperament.
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The demands of tuning and temperament have challenged musicians from the earliest civilizations onward. This guide surveys these problems, devoting a chapter to each principal theory and offering a complete history of tuning and temperament. Requires minimal background in music theory. This new reissue is currently the only edition in print. Includes 9 figures and 180 tables.

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