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Tuning and Temperament: A Historical Survey | 
 enlarge | Author: J. Murray Barbour
Publisher: Dover Publications
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 306566
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.5
ISBN: 0486434060
Dewey Decimal Number: 784.1928
EAN: 9780486434063
ASIN: 0486434060
Publication Date: May 20, 2004
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The demands of tuning and temperament have challenged musicians from the earliest civilizations onward. This guide surveys these problems, devoting a chapter to each principal theory and offering a complete history of tuning and temperament. Requires minimal background in music theory. This new reissue is currently the only edition in print. Includes 9 figures and 180 tables.
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 A classic, essential reading if a bit dated March 11, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Thank heavens Dover did this reprint! Barbour's book is essential reading for anyone wanting a comprehensive overview of historical temperaments, from the early Greeks to the twentieth century. That said, Barbour wrote from the vantage point of someone firmly believing that equal temperament is the ultimate expression of temperament, so the reader is left to interpret the contents, absorb what's good and toss out what's not so useful. Barbour cites many sources, so the book makes a decent bibliogrphy for further study. In fact, having read the book the reader should indeed go to the sources and make his own interpretation of the sources.
While this book is essential reading, there are several other contemporary writers on tuning and temperaments. Highly recommended is Mark Lindley's entry on the subject in the New Grove's. For a valuable polemic on temperaments and harmony, read Ross Duffin's recent "How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care)", available at Amazon.com.
 Dover noticed my review? October 23, 2003
1 out of 10 found this review helpful
Someone from Dover obviously noticed my review. They're planning to reprint Barbour's book in paperback in March 2004. Great value for the planned price!
A standard work, it should be reprinted May 21, 2000
22 out of 23 found this review helpful
This book is a standard source on scales and temeraments, and their history. It compares and contrasts Pythagorean tuning, just intonation, meantone, irregular temperaments, and finally equal temperament. Barbour displays a strong predisposition towards twelve tone equal temperament in this work, and interprets the history of scales and temperaments as an inexorable march towards equal temperament.If you are a publishing company looking for something to reprint, this is a classic.
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