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Afinación y temperamentos históricos
by J. Javier Goldáraz Gaínza
Book description
J. Javier Goldáraz, profesor de Organología y Acústica en el Conservatorio
Superior de Música de Madrid, presenta una guía histórica detallada y en su
propio contexto de aquellos sistemas de afinación y temperamento que más
éxito han tenido a lo largo de nuestra historia musical, algunos de los
cuales están en uso hoy día. J. Javier Goldáraz Gainza es profesor de
Organología y Acústica en el Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid
Rústica con solapas: 271 pages
Publisher: Alianza Editorial ( Colección ALIANZA MÚSICA / Madrid)
Language: Castellano
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Harpsichord tuning: Course outline
by G. C Klop (Author)
Book description
Unknown Binding: 30 pages
Publisher: Werkplaats voor clavecimbelbouw (1974)
Language: English
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How Equal Temperament ruined Harmony (and why you
should care) by Ross W. Duffin
Book description
A captivating look at how musical temperament evolved, and how we could (and
perhaps should) be tuning differently today. Ross W. Duffin presents an
engaging and elegantly reasoned exposé of musical temperament and its impact
on the way in which we experience music. A historical narrative, a music
theory lesson, and, above all, an impassioned letter to musicians and
listeners everywhere, How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony possesses the
power to redefine the very nature of our interactions with music today. For
nearly a century, equal temperament—the practice of dividing an octave into
twelve equally proportioned half-steps—has held a virtual monopoly on the
way in which instruments are tuned and played. In his new book, Duffin
explains how we came to rely exclusively on equal temperament by charting
the fascinating evolution of tuning through the ages. Along the way, he
challenges the widely held belief that equal temperament is a perfect,
"naturally selected" musical system, and proposes a radical reevaluation of
how we play and hear music. 48 illustrations.
Hardcover: 160 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton
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Maintenance and tuning of harpsichords
by Eric Herz (Author)
Book description
Unknown Binding: pages
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Language: English
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Piano Servicing, Tuning and Rebuilding: For the
Professional, the Student, the Hobbyist by Arthur
A. Reblitz
Book description
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Piano Tuner's Pocket Companion
by Oliver Cromwell Faust (Author)
Book description
: 134 pages
Publisher: American Printing House for the Blind (1982)
Language: English
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Piano Tuning: A Simple and Accurate Method for
Amateurs by Jerry Cree Fischer
Book description
Paperback: 202 pages
Publisher: Dover Publications; First Thus edition (June 1, 1975)
Language: English
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Temperament tables by
Rodney Myrvaagnes (Author)
Book description
Rodney Myrvaagnes is a harpsichord maker
Unknown Binding: pages
Publisher: Myrvaagnes (1978)
Language: English
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Temperament: How Music Became a Battleground for
the Great Minds of Western Civilization by Stuart
Isacoff
Book description
Isacoff, editor-in-chief of Piano Today magazine, tells the worthy tale of
how musical temperament the familiar, seemingly fixed relationships between
notes on an instrumental scale came to be taken for granted. After centuries
of an accepted belief in the mathematical and divine governance of music,
the 17th century saw the growth of a fierce debate over experimental new
tuning methods. In the 18th century, the modern keyboard allowed for a new
kind of tuning, known as equal temperament, whereby each pitch is equally
distanced. New musical possibilities opened up, changing composition
forever. Isacoff traces music theory contributions by da Vinci, Newton,
Descartes, Kepler and Rameau. Unfortunately, he sometimes clumsily attempts
to keep his audience's attention with irrelevant, if salacious, gossip e.g.,
philosopher Robert Hooke "recorded his orgasms in a diary," and King Louis
XIV refused to eat with a fork. Meanwhile, he gives relatively short shrift
to Kepler and Galileo. His ambitious historical canvas uses extensive
secondary sources, but there are research gaps, such as his outdated
portrait of Isaac Newton as a total "ascetic." Nevertheless, this harmonics
drama will excite music geeks and music historians. (Nov. 24)Forecast:
Knopf's prestige guarantees sales to major music collections, and Isacoff's
national media appearances (NPR, etc.) may mean good general sales.
Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Vintagebooks
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The Art of Tap Tuning: How to Build Great Sound
into Instruments by Roger H. Siminoff (Author)
Book description
Paperback: pages
Publisher: Hal Leonard Co.
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The Complete Book of Alternate Tunings
by
Book description
Parecen acordes para guitarra. Seventeen of the most popular alternate
tunings for guitar are explained in depth. History, how to tune, scales,
chords, and songs that use the tuning are explained in each chapter.
Additional chapters cover slide tunings, Hawaiian slack key tunings, and how
to invent your own tuning. Also includes 40 pages of tune and artist
listings that use alternate tunings.
Paperback: pages
Publisher: Accent on Music (December 31, 1995)
Language: English
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The Equal Beating Temperaments: A handbook for
tuning harpsichords and fortepianos, with tuning techniques and tables of
fifteen historical temperaments by Owen Jorgensen
(Author)
Book description
A handbook for tuning harpsichords and fortepianos, with tuning techniques
and tables of fifteen historical temperaments. While one can purchase
electronic tuning aids that provide most of the useful temperaments in this
book, one does, by learning to set them by ear, open up a vast field of
possibilities. Good harpsichords simply sound best when tuned in a favorable
temperament and equal temperament ain't it.
Unknown Binding: 36 pages
Publisher: Sunbury Press (1981)
Language: English
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The Pipe Organ - Reed, Orchestrelle, And Player
Piano - Construction, Repair And Tuning by Oliver
C. Faust (Author)
Book description
Hardcover: 236 pages
Publisher: Merchant Books (September 12, 2006)
Language: English
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The Pipe Organ and Player Piano - Construction,
Repair, and Tuning by Oliver C. Faust (Author)
Book description
Hardcover: 232 pages
Publisher: Wexford College Press (March 2003)
Language: English
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The Tuning of my Harpsichord (Schriftenreihe das
Musikinstrument ; Heft 18) by Herbert A. Kellner
(Author)
Book description
Paperback: 54 pages
Publisher: Bold Strummer Ltd (December 1986)
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Treatise on Harpsichord Tuning (Cambridge Musical
Texts and Monographs) by Jean Denis (Author),
Vincent J. Panetta (Author)
Book description
The Treatise on Harpsichord Tuning (1643/50) was the first French document
to discuss keyboard performance practice in any detail. Jean Denis was both
a harpsichord builder of renown and the organist of a prominent Parisian
church, and he thus qualifies as an authority worthy of careful study. The
treatise addresses numerous matters of interest to both scholars and
performers, including temperament, ornamentation, fugue, and the use of the
organ in liturgical practice. Also included in the treatise are a keyboard
prelude designed to reveal errors in tuning and two delightful anecdotes
attesting to the power of music. The forthright character of Denis's writing
lends a unique and distinctly enjoyable tone to the work. Vincent Panetta's
edition of Denis's treatise includes a generously annotated English
translation of the original, along with an extensive Introduction that
places Denis and his treatise in a historical context.
Paperback: 136 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (April 19, 1987)
Language: English
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Treatise on tuning the harpsichord
by Jean Denis (Author)
Book description
Unknown Binding: pages
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Language: English
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Tuning and Temperament: A Historical Survey
by J. Murray Barbour (Author)
Book description
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. Includes 9
figures and 180 tables.
Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Dover Publications (May 20, 2004)
Language: English
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Tuning the historical temperaments ear: A manual of
eighty-nine methods for tuning fifty-one scales on the harpsichord, piano,
and other keyboard instruments by Owen Jorgensen
(Author)
Book description
Unknown Binding: 435 pages
Publisher: Northern Michigan University Press (1977)
Language: English
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Tuning Timbre Spectrum Scale
by William A. Sethares (Author)
Book description
Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale focuses on perceptions of consonance and
dissonance, and how these are dependent on timbre. This also relates to
musical scale: certain timbres sound more consonant in some scales than
others. Sensory consonance and the ability to measure it have important
implications for the design of audio devices and for musical theory and
analysis. Applications include methods of adapting sounds for arbitrary
scales, ways to specify scales for nonharmonic sounds, and techniques of
sound manipulation based on maximizing (or minimizing) consonance. Special
consideration is given here to a new method of adaptive tuning that can
automatically adjust the tuning of a piece based its timbral character so as
to minimize dissonance. Audio examples illustrating the ideas presented are
provided on an accompanying CD. This unique analysis of sound and scale will
be of interest to physicists and engineers working in acoustics, as well as
to musicians and psychologists.
Paperback: 345 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (January 15, 1998)
Language: English
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Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale
by William A. Sethares
Book description
Consonance and dissonance are the very foundation of harmonic music...
consonance represents the element of smoothness and repose, while dissonance
represents the no less important elements of roughness and irregularity.?
TTSS begins by asking (and answering) the question: How can we build a
device to measure consonance and dissonance? The remainder of the book
describes the impact of such a 'dissonance meter' on music theory, on
synthesizer design, on the construction of musical scales and tunings, on
the design of musical instruments, and introduces related compositional
techniques and new methods of musicological analyses.
Hardcover: 430 pages
Publisher: Springer; 2nd edition (November 4, 2004)
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Tuning: Containing the Perfection of
Eighteenth-Century Temperament, the Lost Art of Nineteenth-Century
Temperment and the Science of Equal Temperme by
Owen H. Jorgensen (Author)
Book description
This absolutely enormous book is one of the classics on musical temperament;
for some reason most such books are out of print and hard to get hold of,
and this is no exception. The title has got cut off in the Amazon entry -
the full title is: "Tuning: Containing the Perfection of Eighteenth-Century
Temperament, the Lost Art of Nineteenth-Century Temperment and the Science
of Equal Temperment, Complete with Instructions for Aural and Electronic
Tuning." It is a mixture of history of tunings and temperaments, and
explicit tuning instructions for various temperaments. An interesting thread
running through the book is a detailed argument to the effect that equal
temperament was not commonplace until the twentieth century. If you're
interested in this book, you might want to get hold of the recordings by
Enid Katahn, "Six degrees of Tonality" and "Beethoven in the Temperaments."
The former consists of recordings of a number of pieces from different
periods of musical history, played on a piano tuned by Edward Foote in
temperaments appropriate to the era. Also included are three different takes
of the Mozart Fantasie Kv.397 in meantone, "Prelleur" temperament and equal
temperament. Other books you might want to check out are Barbour's "Tuning
and Temperament" and Dominique Devie's "Le Tempérament Musical."
Hardcover: 821 pages
Publisher: Michigan State Univ Pr
Language: English
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