10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MEAN-TONE TUNING»
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mean-tone tuning in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
mean-tone tuning and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Music Research: New Directions for a New Century
... and those that go beyond the limits—“suggests,” since it is not possible to
ascertain exactly what compromises might have been adopted in mean-tone
tuning or what enharmonic replacements may have been considered acceptable.
Further ...
Michael Ewans, Rosalind Halton, John A. Phillips, 2004
2
A History of the Trombone
Bottrigari passed over wind instruments on the grounds that they cannot conform
to any ancient tuning system, but said they come closer to mean-tone tuning than
any other. Lutes and viols, on the other hand, had to be tuned with semitones ...
3
Dieterich Buxtehude: Organist in Lübeck
Yet they too demonstrate the same problems with respect to mean-tone tuning
and the short octave as do the praeludia, although not to the same degree. For
example, nine chorale preludes in G major (BuxWV 182, 187, 191, 192, 197, 2o8,
...
4
Expanding Tonal Awareness: A Musical Exploration of the ...
The resulting narrow fifth is substantially nearer to the ideal fifth of pure tuning
than is the fifth of mean tone tuning, whose divergence of 0.0537 ht makes it
almost three times as out of tune as the modern fifth. The closed circle of twelve
fifths ...
Although the most familiar mean-tone tuning is probably quarter-comma mean-
tone, there are other variants. The choice of tuning system was dependent on the
musical priorities of the musician. While the mathematics of tuning had been well
...
Tao Li, Mitsunori Ogihara, George Tzanetakis, 2011
6
Principles of the Harpsichord
Although there were some proponents of equal temperament in the 1 7th century,
the system generally referred to as mean-tone tuning was the norm. In equal
temperament, the standard tuning system in Western music today, the octave is ...
Michel de Saint-Lambert, Rebecca Harris-Warrick, 1984
7
Companion to Medieval and Renaissance Music
The progressive erosion of the Pythagorean tuning system by the adoption of
Mean Tone tuning demonstrates the increasing importance that was becoming
attached to thirds at the expense of pure fifths and fourths. It is arguable that
singers ...
Tess Knighton, David Fallows, 1992
The fifth (1.4983:1) is fractionally flatter than a perfect fifth (3:2), but sharper than
the fifth used in mean-tone tuning (1.495:1). It is therefore easy to see how
keyboard musicians moved out of mean-tone tuning into equal temperament by ...
9
Postcolonial Readings of Music in World Literature: Turning ...
For a discussion of alternate tuning possibilities implied by the reference to “well-
tempered,” including mean-tone tuning, see Troeger 251–57. As for violin tuning,
Stuart Isacoff notes that “[a] violin's tuning, although flexible, is rooted in the ...
Cameron Fae Bushnell, 2012
10
Music History During the Renaissance Period, 1520-1550: A ...
Mean-tone temperament RanH, 837 a) Mean-tone tuning had its origin in modal
music and served, at least for tuning the organ, for some three hundred years
LloL, 223 (1) This temperament was used on keyboard instruments from ca. 1500
to ...
