The Story of Harmony
A history of human understanding and use of harmony from ancient China and Greece, through the classical period, and up to the present day. This book is the culmination of many years of research into the history of musical harmony and, in particular, the quest for Just Intonation. A particularly valuable and unique treatise on the subject. Authors : Rex Weyler and Bill Gannon.
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Chapters:
Showdown in Jena
It was on a bright autumn day in 1706 that a great tuning showdown took place in the German town of Jena ...
The first musical scale
:The story begins with the oldest evidence of human music instrumentation dating from 82,000 to 43,000 years ago.
Pythagoras: music & numbers
Harmonists east and west
The stream divides
A just distonic major scale
The Arabian contribution
Keyboards and polyphony in Europe
As sharp as the ear will endure
The art and science of sound
The age of pianos
A paradigm entrenched
The new Harmonists
Justonic
Perfect tuning: so what?
Appendix A: Harmonic overtone series
Appendix B: Derivation and use of just musical scales
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