General Information on Historical Tunings |
Tunings for J. S. Bach |
Just and Alternative Tunings |
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Understanding Temperaments is a general introduction, with audio examples and a Java applet which lets you experiment with different tunings. Kyle Gann's An Introduction to Historical Tunings, written by a composer working with alternative tunings. Claudio di Veroli's Unequal Temperaments SiteAudio examples of different tunings, from the Huygens-Fokker Foundation and from Wim Kamp. Pythagorean Tuning... is a long and excellent article on the history of tunings, particularly in the middle ages. A spreadsheet for calculating temperaments. Zarlino, a site (in French) about just intonation in Renaissance vocal music, with many audio examples. Music translated into Mathematics: Leonhard Euler Articles on tuning and temperament in Wikipedia. |
A list
of links related to tuning for Bach. Andreas Sparschuh's page on his 1998/9 interpretation of the "Bach squiggle". See also the bach-tunings discussion group. Bradley Lehmann's pages on his interpretation of the Bach squiggle. Kenneth Mobb's note on squiggle temperaments. Charles Francis's page on Bach-squiggle-related tunings; shows many other squiggles. Tunings derived from BWV 924 Chapter 2 of David Ledbetter's book Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier (Yale Univ. Press 2002) discusses the development of ideas on tuning in Germany over Bach's lifetime. |
Just
Intonation
Network
is the home page of an organisation dedicated to just tunings and
alternative scales. There is a lot of information here. Scala: free and powerful software for experimenting and working with tunings and temperaments. |