| Powergold |
Powergold is the most comprehensive yet easy to use custom music scheduling software on the planet. Thousands of users worldwide, from the smallest radio market to the world's largest broadcasters, trust Powergold for their music scheduling needs. |
| Huygens-Fokker Foundation |
Center for microtonal music. Promotes microtonal music in all its forms |
| Tuning and Temperament Bibliography |
Containing references to literature about musical tuning, temperament, scales, microtonality and intonation with links to relevant sites. |
| The School of Music |
School of Music at the University of Leeds brings together internationally acclaimed scholars, composers and performers, to set the highest standards in music research and postgraduate teaching. It is one of the largest academic schools of its... |
| The Argument for Equal Temperament |
It seems likely Lerdahl's point here is that intervals proceed gradually from small frequency ratios to larger frequency ones rather than suddenly. The classic Just diatonic scale does this and, to a lesser extent, so does the Pythagorean scale. |
| Just Intonation Network |
Supporting composers, musicians, theorists, and instrument builders working with the tuning system known as Just Intonation. |
| UNEQUAL TEMPERAMENTS by Claudio Di Veroli, PhD |
This is devoted to musicians interested in Early Musical Temperaments: performers of all musical instruments, singers, keyboard tuners, instrument makers and very especially to the readers of the Unequal Temperaments book (1978). |
| A Tour Up The Harmonic Series |
Basic introduction to the Pythagorean circle of fifths and the physical basis for the need for alternative tuning systems. |
| Just Intonation Explained |
Technical introduction to Just Intonation from the leading music writer of the Village Voice. Also, a selected Just-Intonation discography. |
| Pythagorean Tuning and Medieval Polyphony |
Article by Margo Schulter. |
| FreeNote Music: Microtonal Music & Microtonal Instruments |
Microtonal instruments, recordings and books. |
| Natural Temperament |
Argues that the 34-tone equal-temperament scale is the most "natural" equal-temperament scale with fewer than 53 tones. |
| 1/1 |
The journal of The Just Intonation Network. |
| Tantrum |
Tool for the study of temperament anomalies. |
| Equal Temperament Tuning |
An introduction to equal temperament for guitarists who have problems tuning their guitars. |
| John Starrett's Microtonal Music Page |
Microtonal music page with large list of composers, mp3, WAV, MIDI, and Real Audio files of microtonal music. |
| An Introduction to Historical Tunings |
On the development of tuning systems in Medieval Europe (Kirnberger, Young, and mean-tone systems). |
| An Atlas of Consonance |
The author presents a graphical tool for the visualization of consonance and dissonance, based on an acoustical model of the interaction of musical tones. |
| American Festival of Microtonal Music |
The AFMM produces and commissions works which use pitches and musical scales which are not organized in the standard twelve tone to the octave equally tempered way. |
| Tuning by Ratios |
This paper explores the use of simple ratios to tune musical intervals and chords. Included are a tutorial, a set of computer programs, and a re-tuned two-part invention by J.S. Bach. |
| List of Microtonal Music on CD |
Offers a discography of microtonal, xenharmonic, non-12 tone music (CD only). Contains addresses for record labels, and links to the artists (when available). |
| R.L. Reid |
Notes on microtonal composition, with sound files and an introduction to the 43 tone scale. |
| World Scale Depository |
Construction of a reference center of scale measurements throughout the world. |
| A Beginner's Guide to Temperament |
Written by Stephen Bicknell for the electronic mailing list Piporg-l. |
| The Argument for Equal Temperament |
Lerdahl's cognitive constraints. |
| Comparison of Temperaments |
Table comparing various temperaments, including Equal Temperament, Pythagorean, another natural tuning, two mean-tone tunings, two Well temperaments, two Indian tunings, and two Persian tunings. |
| Keyboard temperament analyzer/calculator - Bradley Lehman |
Excel spreadsheet that analyzes keyboard temperaments: gives beat rates for tuning, and harmonic-tension charts in all keys. |
| Modes and Scales in Indian Music |
Article by David Courtney. |
| LucyScaleDevelopments-LucyTuning-John 'Longitude' Harrison |
LucyTuning is a microtonal system derived from pi, and the writings of John 'Longitude' Harrison. |
| Alternate Temperaments: Theory and Philosophy |
Introduction to tuning systems, based on the cents system. Written by Terry Blackburn. |
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