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    • Temperament : How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization (Paperback)

    Temperament : How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization (Paperback)

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      Temperament : How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization (Paperback)

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      Few music lovers realize that the arrangement of notes on today’ s pianos was once regarded as a crime against God and nature, or that such legendary thinkers as Pythagoras, Plato, da Vinci, Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Newton and Rousseau played a role in the controversy.

      Indeed, from the time of the Ancient Greeks through the eras of Renaissance scientists and Enlightenment philosophers, the relationship between the notes of the musical scale was seen as a key to the very nature of the universe.

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      from name99

      A horrible, pointless waste of time. The author goes on and on describing the lunatic musical theories of various twits from the past without ever condemning them or placing them in some sort of un...

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      from neurodrew

      A short book about tuning for keyboard insturments, and the struggles associated with establishment of the current equal temperment tuning. I did not realize the problem associated with tuning on t...

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      from bethlakshmi

      A dicussion of the evolution of Western music into what we know modernly. It has nothing to do with India, but it's a great beginner intro to some of the concepts in music theory history.

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