How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care) (eBook)

Ross W. Duffin (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2008
208 Seiten
W. W. Norton & Company (Verlag)
978-0-393-07564-9 (ISBN)

Infos

What if Bach and Mozart heard richer, more dramatic chords than we hear in music today? What sonorities and moods have we lost in playing music in "e;equal temperament"e;-the equal division of the octave into twelve notes that has become our standard tuning method? Thanks to How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony, "e;we may soon be able to hear for ourselves what Beethoven really meant when he called B minor 'black'"e; (Wall Street Journal).In this "e;comprehensive plea for more variety in tuning methods"e; (Kirkus Reviews), Ross W. Duffin presents "e;a serious and well-argued case"e; (Goldberg Magazine) that "e;should make any contemporary musician think differently about tuning"e; (Saturday Guardian).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.10.2008
• Zusatzinfo: 48 illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Instrumentenkunde
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
• ISBN-10: 0-393-07564-8 / 0393075648
• ISBN-13: 978-0-393-07564-9 / 9780393075649