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A guide to musical temperament
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- Creator
- Thomas Donahue
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2005
- Physical Details
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- xii, 229 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780810854383, 0810854384
- OCLC
- ocm60743178
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-222) and index.
- Main material. The basis for temperament ; Selected temperaments ; Musical aspects ; Generating tuning instructions ; The tuning process ; Instructions for setting selected temperaments ; A historical overview -- Supplementary material. Starting notes, pitch references, and transposition ; Theoretical and equal-beating versions ; Near-equal temperament ; Derivation of the cent equation ; Temperament data ; Temperament spreadsheets ; Instructions in musical notation