Full Description
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 Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Contents
*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. v*Preface, pg. ix*Chapter I. Fundamental Properties of Musical Intervals, pg. 3*Chapter II. The Diatonic Scale in Pythagorean Tuning, pg. 22*Chapter III. Names and Distributional Patterns of the Diatonic Intervals, pg. 31*Chapter IV. Extended Pythagorean Tuning, pg. 49*Chapter V. The Diatonic Scale in Just Tuning, pg. 67*Chapter VI. Extended Just Tuning, pg. 91*Chapter VII. Musical Examples in Just Tuning, pg. 129*Chapter VIII. The Diatonic Scale in Meantone Tuning, pg. 154*Chapter IX. Extended Meantone Tuning, pg. 165*Chapter X. The General Family of Recognizable Diatonic Tunings, pg. 193*Chapter XI. Equal Tunings and Closed Circles of Fifths, pg. 221*Chapter XII. The Diatonic Equal Tunings, pg. 261*Index, pg. 315
