Tuning & the Fundamentals of Music

 

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Books

Barbour, Murray, Tuning and Temperament, Da Capo Press, 1972.

Berendt, Joachim-Ernst, The Third Ear: On Listening to the World, Element Books, 1985.

Boethius, Fundamentals of Music, (524 AD), Tr. Calvin Bower, Yale University Press, 1989.

Danielou, Alain, Music and the Power of Sound: The Influence of Tuning and Interval on Consciousnes, (1944), Inner Traditions, 1995. Reprint of the pioneering "Introduction to the Study of Musical Scales".

Déscartes, Réné, Abrégé de Musique, (1619), Presses Universitaires de France, 1987.

Fox-Strangways, A.H., The Music of Hindoostan, Oxford University Press, 1914.

Godwin, Joscelyn, The Harmony of the Spheres: A Sourcebook of the Pythagorean Tradition in Music, Inner Traditions, 1993.

Harrison, Lou, Lou Harrison'sMusic Primer, C.F. Peters, 1971.

Helmholtz, Hermann, On the Sensation of Tone, (1877), Tr. Alexander Ellis, Dover, 1954.

James, Jamie, The Music of the Spheres, Grove Press, 1993.

Kunst, Jaap, Music in Java, (1933), Martinus Nijoff, 1973.

Lindisfarne, Homage to Pythagoras, Lindisfarne Association, 1982. Kathleen Raine, Robert Lawlor, Chris Bamford, et al..

Matthieu, William Allaudin, Harmonic Experience, Inner Traditions, 1997.

Partch, Harry, Genesis of a Music: An Account of a Creative Work, Its Roots and Its Fulfillments, Da Capo Press, 1979.

Rudhyar, Dane, The Magic of Tone and the Art of Music, Shambhala, 1982.

Schlesinger, Kathleen, The Greek Aulos, Methuen & Co., 1939.

Wilkinson, Scott, Tuning In: Microtonality in Electronic Music, Hal Leonard Books, 1988.

Wind, Edgar, Pagan Myseries of the Renaissance, Yale University Press, 1958.

 

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