Home >> Arts >> Music >> Theory >> Tuning Systems   Just Intonation   Microtonal       Magazines and E-zines         Alternate Temperaments: Theory and Philosophy Introduction to tuning systems, based on the cents system. Written by Terry Blackburn. Justonic Tuning Inc. Pitch Palette software tunes a microtunable synthesizer to just intonation, world scales, historic scales and user scales in real time. A Beginner's Guide to Temperament Written by Stephen Bicknell for the electronic mailing list Piporg-l. An Atlas of Consonance The author presents a graphical tool for the visualization of consonance and dissonance, based on an acoustical model of the interaction of musical tones. Comparison of Temperaments 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. Keyboard temperament analyzer/calculator - Bradley Lehman Excel spreadsheet that analyzes keyboard temperaments: gives beat rates for tuning, and harmonic-tension charts in all keys. Tantrum Tool for the study of temperament anomalies. World Scale Depository Construction of a reference center of scale measurements throughout the world. Pythagorean Tuning and Medieval Polyphony Article by Margo Schulter. Historical Tuning Includes information on the differences between equal temperament and well temperament and why Bach rejected equal temperament and celebrated well temperament.
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