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Author Dolata, David, author

Title Meantone temperaments on lutes and viols / David Dolata
Published Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, 2016
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Description 1 online resource
Series Publications of the Early Music Institute
Publications of the Early Music Institute
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
Summary 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 Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Lute -- Tuning
Viols -- Tuning
Musical temperament.
MUSIC -- Musical Instruments -- Strings.
Lute -- Tuning
Musical temperament
Laute
Mitteltönige Temperatur
Stimmung Musik
Temperatur Musik
Viola
Viola da Gamba
Luths (famille d'instruments) -- Harmonie (musique)
Viole -- Harmonie (musique)
Tempérament (musique)
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780253021465
0253021464