Temperament: The Idea That Solved Music's Greatest Riddle
Isacoff, Stuart
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Explores the eighteenth-century musical breakthrough that led to the creation of the modern piano keyboard, which greatly expanded the creative possibilities of classical composition.
Informazioni sull?autore: Stuart Isacoff, a recipient of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for excellence in writing about music, is a pianist, lecturer, composer, and the creator and editor in chief of the country's largest-circulation classical piano magazine, <i>Piano Today</i>. He has contributed to <i>The New Grove Dictionary of American Music</i> and has written for the <i>New York Times</i>. He lives in Bergen County, New Jersey.
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Cloth. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. First Edition. Isacoff examines the tuning of the Western diatonic scale, the problem of obtaining pure, harmonious intervals across the scale and across keys, and the development of equal temperament. Isacoff relates the story of the reinvention of the piano--a story that encompasses social history, religion, philosophy, and science as well as musicology--in a concise and sparkling narrative. 259pp, small illustrations. An 'as new' copy in a similar but price-clipped dustjacket. Unpacked weight, 382g. We use both the Canada Post and the United States Postal Service and offer very competitive postal charges - based on actual costs, no overcharging. Images always available. Shipped well packed. [Maximum postage to anywhere within Canada is now approx US$15.00- up to 5kg total weight, boxed, insured, trackable and faster than regular parcels. Less will be charged if rates indicate]. Size: 20cm Tall. Book. Codice articolo 428
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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good/Very Good. First Edition. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting.The spine remains undamaged. A fascinating and hugely original book that explains how a vexing technical puzzle was solved, making possible some of the most exquisite music ever w ritten. From the days of the ancient Greeks, the creation of music was thought to b e governed by divine and immutable mathematical certainties. But over time skeptics came to understand that those rules limited harmonic possibilities . In Temperament, we see the traditionalists and the innovators battling ac ross the centuries, engaging great thinkers like Newton, Kepler, and Descar tes as well as musicians, craftsmen, church leaders, and heads of state. At the heart of their dispute is the question of how the tones of a musical s cale should be selected. The breakthrough came in the eighteenth century, when the modern keyboard w as given perfect musical symmetry through a tuning of equal temperament, ea ch pitch reliably equidistant from the ones that precede and follow it. Thi s tuning allows a musical pattern begun on one note to be duplicated when s tarting on any other; it creates a musical universe in which the relationsh ips between tones are reliably, uniformly consistent--a universe of greatly expanded possibility, one that allowed Liszt, Chopin, Brahms, Debussy, and all those who followed to compose the piano music we listen to today. Stuart Isacoff relates the story of the reinvention of the piano--a story that encompasses social history, religion, philosophy, and science as well as musicology--in a concise and sparkling narrati. Codice articolo RWARE0000074516
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Hardcover. Condizione: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, Third Printing (June 2002). Not price-clipped. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is like new. Dust jacket is like new.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York. Codice articolo 304785
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