Summer 2021
MUSC 726T | Blackboard | Listening/Analysis | Handouts
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1. | The
Harmonic Series |
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2. | Generating
Scales |
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3. | Pythagorean
Tuning |
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4. | Just Intonation |
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5. | Meantone
Temperament |
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6. | Well
Temperament |
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7. | Equal
Temperament |
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Special
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Numbers...are eternal, and unvarying from culture to culture, from eon to eon.
– Kyle Gann, The Arithmetic of Listening
Tuning theory for contemporary musicians with a focus on the theory, analysis, and
practice of microtonality in historical and contemporary contexts.
Prerequisite: Undergraduate tonal harmony and voice leading
Gann, Kyle. 2019. The Arithmetic of Listening: Tuning Theory and History for the Impractical Musician.
Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press. {Table of Contents}
Login at: EBSCOhost, or purchase the book {IUP Website}
BAIN MUSC 726T: Bibliography & Articles
Huygens-Fokker Foundation, Tuning & Temperament Bibliography
Benade,
Arthur. Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics. 1990. Mineola, NY:
Dover. {GB}
Blackwood,
Easley. 2014/1985. The Structure of Recognizable Diatonic Tunings.
Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press. {GB;
Full-text: JSTOR;
Table of Equal
Tunings 12-75, pp. 293-294: JSTOR}.
Pierce, John. 1992. The Science of Musical Sound. New York: W. H. Freeman. {GBd}
Roederer, Juan. 2008/1973. The Physics and Psychophysics of Music: An Introduction, 4th ed. New York: Springer. {GB}
Sethares,
William A. 2005. Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale, 2nd ed.
New York: Springer. {GB;
Website}
Reginald
Bain | University of South
Carolina | School
of Music
https://reginaldbain.com/vc/musc726t/