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Meantone Temperaments on Lutes and Viols

Meantone Temperaments on Lutes and Viols - Publications of the Early Music Institute

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

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Indiana University Press

Book information

ISBN: 9780253021236
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 787.81928
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 622g
Height: 245mm
Width: 163mm
Spine width: 24mm