Temperament : How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilisation by Stuart Isacoff, Stuart Isacoff

Temperament : How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilisation

Stuart Isacoff, Stuart Isacoff

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The piano is the best loved of musical instruments, thanks in part to the elegant symmetrical design of its ivory and ebony keyboard, relative to pitch. And yet this "equal temperament" tuning was once a hugely controversial proposition. For hundr...

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