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Book SynopsisIn 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 te
Table of 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
