Tuning Systems Theory Music

Tuning Systems

Sites which deal with tuning systems (historical and modern), just intonation, and theories of tuning, temperament, and harmelodics. In Baroque times the primary musical "experiments" were not really in melody, rhythm, or harmony, but in instrument building and tuning systems. Likewise, today the things which separate ambient music artists such as Tricky from experimental artists such as the Deep Listening Band or Harry Partch are in the depth to which experimental artists test new tuning systems.

• - (1875-1965), Mexican music creator of the microtonal system called the 13th Sound. He reformed the theory of music, invented a new musical written based in numbers and built instrument capable to produce those small intervals.
  
• - Table comparing various temperaments, including Equal Temperament, Pythagorean, another natural tuning, two mean-tone tunings, two Well temperaments, two Indian tunings, and two Persian tunings.
  
• - On the development of tuning systems in Medieval Europe (Kirnberger, Young, and mean-tone systems).
  
• - Pitch Palette software tunes a microtunable synthesizer to just intonation, world scales, historic scales and user scales in real time.
  
• - Introduction to tuning systems, based on the cents system. Written by Terry Blackburn.
  
• - Excel spreadsheet that analyzes keyboard temperaments: gives beat rates for tuning, and harmonic-tension charts in all keys.
  
• - Article by Margo Schulter.
  
• - This paper explores the use of simple ratios to tune musical intervals and chords. Included are a tutorial, a set of computer programs, and a re-tuned two-part invention by J.S. Bach.
  
• - Two academic papers, covering music before 1750, and music during the Classical and Romantic periods.
  
• - Includes information on the differences between equal temperament and well temperament and why Bach rejected equal temperament and celebrated well temperament.
  
• - Tunings used for harpsichords.
  
• - Construction of a reference center of scale measurements throughout the world.
  
• - Center for microtonal music. Promotes microtonal music in all its forms
  
• - Paper on the history of the tuning system, as well as information about tuning a harpsichord in this system.
  
• - Written by Stephen Bicknell for the electronic mailing list Piporg-l.
  
• - An introduction to equal temperament for guitarists who have problems tuning their guitars.
  
• - Lerdahl's cognitive constraints.
  
• - Tool for the study of temperament anomalies.
  
• - Basic introduction to the Pythagorean circle of fifths and the physical basis for the need for alternative tuning systems.
  
• - Article by David Courtney.
  
• - The author presents a graphical tool for the visualization of consonance and dissonance, based on an acoustical model of the interaction of musical tones.
  
  

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