Meantone Temperaments on Lutes and Viols

David Dolata (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2016
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-02123-6 (ISBN)

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Written for musicians by a musician, Meantone Temperaments on Lutes and Viols demystifies tuning systems by providing the basic information, historical context, and practical advice necessary to easily achieve more satisfying tuning results on fretted instruments. Despite the overwhelming organological evidence that many of the finest lutenists, vihuelists, and viola da gamba players in the Renaissance and Baroque eras tuned their instruments in one of the meantone temperaments, most modern early instrument players today still tune to equal temperament. In this handbook richly supplemented with figures, diagrams, and music examples, historical performers will discover why temperaments are necessary and how they work, descriptions of a variety of temperaments, and their application on fretted instruments. 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.

David Dolata is Professor of Musicology at Florida International University and professional lutenist, appearing at such venues as the Glimmerglass Opera, the Florida Grand Opera, the Northwest Bach Festival, the Miami Bach Society, and on broadcasts and recordings for NPR, CBS, and BBC.

List of Diagrams
List of Tables
List of Audio Files
Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part One: Precedent
Part One Introduction
1. Historical Performance, Thought, and Perspective
2. Surviving Fixed Metal-Fret Instruments
3. Fretting Pattern Iconography
Part One Conclusion

Part Two: Theory
Part Two Introduction
4. Inside the Numbers: How Tuning Systems Work and Why We Need Them
5. Tour through Tuning Systems
Part Two Conclusion

Part Three: Practice
Part Three Introduction
6. Physical and Environmental Factors
7. The Zen of Tuning
8. Continuo
9. Viols

Conclusion
Appendix 1: Cleartune
Appendix 2: Equal Temperament Offset Charts
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	18.07.2016
Zusatzinfo	42 Tables, black and white
Verlagsort	Bloomington, IN
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	612 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Instrumentenkunde
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-253-02123-5 / 0253021235
ISBN-13	978-0-253-02123-6 / 9780253021236
Zustand	Neuware