BAIN MUSC 726T
Tuning Theory

Terms & Concepts

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See also: ASA Standard Term DatabaseBritannica Academic (BA) | Harvard Dictionary (HD)
Grove/Oxford (Grove) | Tonalsoft | Wikipedia (WP) | Xenharmonic Wiki (XW)

See also the Glossary of Tuning Turning Terms in Gann 2019, pp. 277-282 {EBSCOhost}



  1. 12-tet {WP; XW}
  2. Acoustics {BA; HD; WP} & Psychoacoustics {WP}
  3. Aristoxenus, Elementa harmonica (4th c. BCE) {WP}
  4. Barbour, Tuning and Temperament: A Historical Survey (Barbour 1951)
  5. Blackwood, The Structure of Recognizable Diatonic Tunings (1985)
  6. Boethius, De institutione musica (1491) {WP}
  7. Bohlen-Pierce scale {WP; XW}
  8. Chain of fifths notation {XW; Scholtz 1998)
  9. Comma {BA; WP}
  10. Consonance and dissonance {HD}
  11. Diatonic
  12. EDO vs. ET {XW}
  13. Equal-step tuning {XW}
  14. Expressive intonation (Sundberg et al 1989)
  15. Generated collection {WP}
  16. Harmonic series, or overtone series {Teoria; HD; WP; XW}
  17. Helmholtz, On the Sensations of Tone {WP} (Helmholtz 1885)
  18. Historically informed performance {WP}
  19. History of tuning theory
  20. Historical pitch {WP; EMS}
  21. Interval {WP}
  22. Just intonation (JI) {BA; HD; XW} (Doty 2002; Nicholson and Sabat 2018)
  23. Harmony of the spheres {WP}
  24. Keyboard {WP}
  25. Lambdoma (or Pythagorean Lambdoma)
  26. Lattice {WP}
  27. Line of fifths (Blackwood 1985, p. 49)
  28. Lipps-Meyer law {WP}
  29. Lissajous figures {WP}
  30. Meantone temperament {WP; XW; Tonalsoft}
  31. Mersenne, Harmonie Universelle (1639) {WP}
  32. Microtonal notation
  33. Microtonality {HFF; XW}
  34. Moment of symmetry (MOS) scale (Milne et al. 2007)
  35. Monochord {WP; Grove}
  36. Musical tone {WP}
  37. Music of the spheres, see Musica universalis {WP}
  38. Newton's spectrum scale {Gencer 2020}
  39. Number {WP}
  40. Octave reduction {XW}
  41. Overtone {BA}
  42. Partch,Genesis of a Music {WP} (Partch 1949)
  43. Pitch notation
  44. Physics {WP}
  45. Physiology {WP}
  46. Prime limit {WP; XW} (Gann, pp. 36-37)
  47. Psychology {WP}
  48. Ptolemy, Harmonika (2nd c.) {Chicago.edu; IA} (Gann, Ch. 3, pp. 42-47)
  49. Pythagoras {WP}
  50. Pythagorean tuning {WP; XW} (Gann, Ch. 4)
  51. Quadrivium {WP}
    arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy
  52. Quarter tone {WP}
  53. Ratio {XW}
  54. Savart {WP}
  55. Scale {BA; HD}
  56. Scordatura {WP}
  57. Sondio 13 {WP}
  58. Subharmonic series, or undertone series {WP}
  59. Superparticular ratio {XW}
  60. Temperament
  61. Tetractys {WP}
  62. Tone circles and spirals
  63. Tonnetz {WP}
  64. Tuning and temperament {BA}
  65. Unity (1/1)
  66. Well Temperament {WP; XW} (Gann, Ch. 8)
  67. Xenharmonic music {WP}
  68. Zarlino, De institutione musica (1558) {WP}


LEGEND
BA - Britannica Academic
HD - Harvard Dictionary
  HFF - Huygens-Fokker Foundation
Ebook Central - ProQuest Ebook Central
Grove - Grove Music Online
SA - Sound American
WP - Wikipedia
  XW - Xenharmonic Wiki


Links

Acoustical Society of America – https://acousticalsociety.org

Huygens-Fokker Foundation – https://www.huygens-fokker.org

Marc Sabat: Music and Writings – https://marsbat.space

The [Erv] Wilson Archives – https://www.anaphoria.com/wilson.html

Joe Monzo, Tonalsoft Encyclopedia of Microtonal Music Theory – http://www.tonalsoft.com/enc/encyclopedia.aspx

Xenharmonic Wiki (XW)  – https://en.xen.wiki/w/Main_Page


References

See also: BAIN MUSC 726T Bibliography | Articles

Gann, Kyle. 2019. The Arithmetic of Listening: Tuning Theory and History for the Impractical Musician. Champaign: University of Illinois Press. {GB}



Updated: March 22, 2024

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