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245 10 a| Temperament :b| the idea that solved music's greatest riddle /c| Stuart Isacoff.;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-249) and index.;

505 0 a| Newton's desires -- In the realm of the gods -- So many bells -- The search for la: a musical puzzle -- Frozen music -- The harmony of heaven and earth -- A keyboard perspective -- Euclid's gift -- The alchemy of sound -- A short trip to china -- The scientists confer -- Liberty, equality, adversity.;

520 a| From the days of the ancient Greeks, the creation of music was thought to be governed by divine and immutable mathematical certainties. But over time skeptics came to understand that those rules limited harmonic possibilities. In this book, we see the traditionalists and the innovators battling across the centuries, engaging great thinkers like Newton, Kepler, and Descartes as well as musicians, craftsmen, church leaders, and heads of state. At the heart of their dispute is the question of how the tones of a musical scale should be selected. The breakthrough came in the eighteenth century, when the modern keyboard was given perfect musical symmetry through a tuning of equal temperament, each pitch reliably equidistant from the ones that precede and follow it. This tuning allows a musical pattern begun on one note to be duplicated when starting on any other; it creates a musical universe in which the relationships between tones are reliably, uniformly consistent--a universe of greatly expanded possibility, one that allowed Liszt, Chopin, Brahms, Debussy, and all those who followed to compose the piano music we listen to today. This book relates the story of the reinvention of the piano--a story that encompasses social history, religion, philosophy, and science as well as musicology.;

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Temperament : the idea that solved music's greatest riddle / Stuart Isacoff.

Author/creator	Isacoff, Stuart
Format	Book
Edition	First edition.
Publication Info	New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, ©2001.
Description	259 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Subjects	Musical temperament. Musical intervals and scales. Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Contents	Newton's desires -- In the realm of the gods -- So many bells -- The search for la: a musical puzzle -- Frozen music -- The harmony of heaven and earth -- A keyboard perspective -- Euclid's gift -- The alchemy of sound -- A short trip to china -- The scientists confer -- Liberty, equality, adversity.
Abstract	From the days of the ancient Greeks, the creation of music was thought to be governed by divine and immutable mathematical certainties. But over time skeptics came to understand that those rules limited harmonic possibilities. In this book, we see the traditionalists and the innovators battling across the centuries, engaging great thinkers like Newton, Kepler, and Descartes as well as musicians, craftsmen, church leaders, and heads of state. At the heart of their dispute is the question of how the tones of a musical scale should be selected. The breakthrough came in the eighteenth century, when the modern keyboard was given perfect musical symmetry through a tuning of equal temperament, each pitch reliably equidistant from the ones that precede and follow it. This tuning allows a musical pattern begun on one note to be duplicated when starting on any other; it creates a musical universe in which the relationships between tones are reliably, uniformly consistent--a universe of greatly expanded possibility, one that allowed Liszt, Chopin, Brahms, Debussy, and all those who followed to compose the piano music we listen to today. This book relates the story of the reinvention of the piano--a story that encompasses social history, religion, philosophy, and science as well as musicology.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-249) and index.
LCCN	2001033805
ISBN	0375403558 (alk. paper)

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