E-Book, Englisch, 330 Seiten
Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library
Blackwood The Structure of Recognizable Diatonic Tunings
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-5407-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 330 Seiten
Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library
ISBN: 978-1-4008-5407-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
In a comprehensive work with important implications for tuning theory and musicology, Easley Blackwood, a distinguished-composer, establishes a mathematical basis for the family of diatonic tunings generated by combinations of perfect fifths and octaves.
Originally published in 1986.
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FrontMatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. v
Preface, pg. ix
Chapter I. Fundamental Properties of Musical Intervals, pg. 3
Chapter II. The Diatonic Scale in Pythagorean Tuning, pg. 22
Chapter III. Names and Distributional Patterns of the Diatonic Intervals, pg. 31
Chapter IV. Extended Pythagorean Tuning, pg. 49
Chapter V. The Diatonic Scale in Just Tuning, pg. 67
Chapter VI. Extended Just Tuning, pg. 91
Chapter VII. Musical Examples in Just Tuning, pg. 129
Chapter VIII. The Diatonic Scale in Meantone Tuning, pg. 154
Chapter IX. Extended Meantone Tuning, pg. 165
Chapter X. The General Family of Recognizable Diatonic Tunings, pg. 193
Chapter XI. Equal Tunings and Closed Circles of Fifths, pg. 221
Chapter XII. The Diatonic Equal Tunings, pg. 261
Index, pg. 315
