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Temperament
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Lissajous Figures
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Temperament: Boethius
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Temperament
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Temperament1. Music of the Spheres (musica
mundana)
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Temperament1. Music of the Spheres (musica
mundana)
2. Harmonic overtones
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Temperament: Musica MundanaThe man that hath not music in himself
Nor is moved with concord of sweet sounds
Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils,The motions of his spirit are as dull as night
And his affections dark as Erebus.
Let no such man be trusted.
Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice. Act V, sc. 1, l. 54 (1596/8)
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Temperament: Musica MundanaSure there is music even in the beauty,
and the silent note which cupid strikes,
far sweeter than the sound of aninstrument. For there is music whereverthere is harmony, order or proportion,and thus far we may maintain the music
of the spheres.
Thomas Browne (1605 1682), Religio Medici.
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Temperament: Musica Mundana
Robert Fludd (1574 -1637)
Celestial
Monochord
De Musica Mundana (1618)
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Temperament: Musica Mundana
Johannes Kepler (1571 1630)
Mysterium Cosmographicum (1596)
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Temperament: Musica Mundana
Vincenzo Galilei (1520 1591)
A special discourse concerning the diversityof ratios in the octave
A special discourse concerning the unison
Dialogue on ancient and modern music(1581)
Discourse concerning the various opinionsthat the three most famous sects of ancientmusicians had concerning the matter ofsound and tunings
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Temperament: Musica Mundana
Vincenzo Galilei (1520 1591)
Sounds are unisonant only insofar as the
diversity of the materials of which they are
made allows the quantity of sound, the diversity of agents
that strike them, the thickness, height and
length of the body on which they are
stretched and the force with which they arestruck.
Vincenzo Galilei,A special discourse concerning the unison
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Temperament: Musica Mundana
Vincenzo Galilei (1520 1591)
Ancient music is lostand its light has so
dimmed that many consider its wonderful
excellence a dream and a fable After the loss [of ancient music] men began
to derive from instruments rules for
composing and singing several airs together
Vincenzo Galilei, Dialogue on Ancient and Modern Music(1581)
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Temperament: Musica Mundana
Vincenzo Galilei (1520 1591)
Voices, being naturally perfect, cannot singwell a song that is not composed according to
their perfect usage, but an instrumenttempered according to the imperfect usage inwhich the song is imperfectly composed, onthe other hand, can play it.
(Discourse concerning the various opinions that the three mostfamous sects of ancient musicians had concerning the matter ofsound and tunings.)
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Temperament: Tuning Pythagorean tuning
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Temperament: Tuning Pythagorean tuning
Just Intonation
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Temperament: Tuning Pythagorean tuning
Just Intonation
Mean-tone tuning
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Temperament: Tuning Pythagorean tuning
Just Intonation
Mean-tone tuning
The well-tuned
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Temperament: Tuning Pythagorean tuning
Just Intonation
Mean-tone tuning
The well-tuned
Equal Temperament
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Harry Partchs forty-three note
octave
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Some of Harry Partchs instruments
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Planetary Kisses
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References
Clark and rehding
Strunk
Stuart isaacoff Chrstitopher Stembridge
La Monte young
Newband
Kyle Gann
How et ruined harmony