The Structure of Recognizable Diatonic Tunings / / Easley Blackwood.

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.The Princeton Leg...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1986
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 327
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Physical Description:1 online resource (330 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Chapter I. Fundamental Properties of Musical Intervals
  • Chapter II. The Diatonic Scale in Pythagorean Tuning
  • Chapter III. Names and Distributional Patterns of the Diatonic Intervals
  • Chapter IV. Extended Pythagorean Tuning
  • Chapter V. The Diatonic Scale in Just Tuning
  • Chapter VI. Extended Just Tuning
  • Chapter VII. Musical Examples in Just Tuning
  • Chapter VIII. The Diatonic Scale in Meantone Tuning
  • Chapter IX. Extended Meantone Tuning
  • Chapter X. The General Family of Recognizable Diatonic Tunings
  • Chapter XI. Equal Tunings and Closed Circles of Fifths
  • Chapter XII. The Diatonic Equal Tunings
  • Index