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Meantone Temperaments on Lutes and Viols / David Dolata.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dolata, David, author.
- Series:
- Publications of the Early Music Institute.
- Publications of the Early Music Institute
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Musical temperament.
- Viols--Tuning.
- Viols.
- Lute--Tuning.
- Lute.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (288 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington, Indiana ; Indianapolis, [Indiana] : Indiana University Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This technical book provides downloadable audio tracks and other tools for fretted instrument players to achieve more stable consonances, colorful dissonances, and harmonic progressions that vividly propel the music forward.
- Contents:
- Historical performance, thought, and perspective
- Surviving fixed metal-fret instruments
- Fretting pattern iconography
- Inside the numbers : how tuning systems work and why we need them
- Tour through tuning systems
- Physical and environmental factors
- The zen of tuning
- Continuo
- Viols.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780253021465
- 0253021464
- OCLC:
- 950519255
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