How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care)
Ross W. Duffin
Bok · Engelsk · 2007
| Utgitt | New York : W.W. Norton , 2007
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| Omfang | 196 s. : ill.
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| Opplysninger | Shouldn't leading notes lead? ; How temperament started ; Non-keyboard tuning ; "How long, O Lord, how long?" ; A bridge to the nineteenth century ; Really better or simply easier? ; Some are more equal than others ; The "Joachim mode" ; "The limbo of that which is disregarded" ; Where do we go from here?. - "In How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care), author Ross W. Duffin traces the history of musical temperament (the system musicians use to tune their scales) through the ages. Duffin reveals how the division of the octave into twelve equal half steps - what we know as equal temperament - came to hold a virtual monopoly as the only tuning system most of us have ever known. However, as he notes, equal temperament was not always the only system around, nor even the preferred one. Many of the classical masters - among them Bach, Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven - wrote their music with alternative systems in mind, creating a radically different sound more rich and sonorous than what we most often hear today."
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| ISBN | 9780393334203 : Nkr. 300.00
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| Hylleplass | 784.192 DUF
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