| Series |
Publications of the Early Music Institute
Publications of the Early Music Institute. ^A269942
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| Contents |
Historical performance, thought, and perspective -- Surviving fixed metal-fret instruments -- Fretting pattern iconography -- Inside the numbers : how tuning systems work and why we need them -- Tour through tuning systems -- Physical and environmental factors -- The zen of tuning -- Continuo -- Viols. |
| Abstract |
Written for musicians by a musician, Meantone Temperaments on Lutes and Viols demystifies tuning systems by providing the basic information, historical context, and practical advice necessary to easily achieve more satisfying tuning results on fretted instruments. Despite the overwhelming organological evidence that many of the finest lutenists, vihuelists, and viola da gamba players in the Renaissance and Baroque eras tuned their instruments in one of the meantone temperaments, most modern early instrument players today still tune to equal temperament. In this handbook richly supplemented with figures, diagrams, and music examples, historical performers will discover why temperaments are necessary and how they work, descriptions of a variety of temperaments, and their application on fretted instruments. This technical book provides downloadable audio tracks and other tools for fretted instrument players to achieve more stable consonances, colorful dissonances, and harmonic progressions that vividly propel the music forward. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Dolata, David. Meantone temperaments on lutes and viols. Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, 2016 9780253021236 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9780253021465 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 0253021464 (electronic bk.) |
| Stock number | 22573/ctt1c4ddn3 JSTOR |
