A Guide to Musical Temperament

by Donahue, Thomas

• ISBN13: 9780810854383
• ISBN10: 0810854384
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-10-13
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Summary

On keyboard instruments, tuning pure fifth intervals causes octaves to be out-of-tune. A temperament is a system of tuning in which the tuning of the fifths is altered to keep the octaves in-tune, and to allow all notes of the musical scale to be usable.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Preface	xi
Part 1 Main Material	1	(126)
1 The Basis for Temperament	3	(18)
2 Selected Temperaments	21	(24)
3 Musical Aspects	45	(14)
4 Generating Tuning Instructions	59	(24)
5 The Tuning Process	83	(14)
6 Instructions for Setting Selected Temperaments	97	(12)
7 A Historical Overview	109	(18)
Part 2 Supplementary Material	127	(82)
8 Starting Notes, Pitch References, and Transposition	129	(8)
9 Theoretical and Equal-Beating Versions	137	(4)
10 Near-Equal Temperament	141	(4)
11 Derivation of the Cent Equation	145	(6)
12 Temperament Data	151	(22)
13 Temperament Spreadsheets	173	(16)
14 Instructions in Musical Notation	189	(20)
Glossary	209	(8)
Bibliography	217	(6)
Index	223	(6)
About the Author	229