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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The Structure of Recognizable Diatonic Tunings
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Publisher
Princeton University PressYear
2014Print ISBN
9780691610887
9780691091297
eBook ISBN
9781400854073
Subtopic
MusicTable of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- I. Fundamental Properties of Musical Intervals
- II. The Diatonic Scale in Pythagorean Tuning
- III. Names and Distributional Patterns of the Diatonic Intervals
- IV. Extended Pythagorean Tuning
- V. The Diatonic Scale in Just Tuning
- VI. Extended Just Tuning
- VII. Musical Examples in Just Tuning
- VIII. The Diatonic Scale in Meantone Tuning
- IX. Extended Meantone Tuning
- X. The General Family of Recognizable Diatonic Tunings
- XI. Equal Tunings and Closed Circles of Fifths
- XII. The Diatonic Equal Tunings
- Index
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