A guide to musical temperament / Thomas Donahue.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Donahue, Thomas, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Musical temperament.

Tuning.

Physical Description:

xii, 229 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2005.

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.

Contents:

Main material. The basis for temperament ; Selected temperaments ; Musical aspects ; Generating tuning instructions ; The tuning process ; Instructions for setting selected temperaments ; A historical overview

Supplementary material. Starting notes, pitch references, and transposition ; Theoretical and equal-beating versions ; Near-equal temperament ; Derivation of the cent equation ; Temperament data ; Temperament spreadsheets ; Instructions in musical notation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-222) and index.

ISBN:

0810854384

OCLC:

60743178