Book Review
Apr. 28th, 2011 09:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kenjariHow Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony And Why You Should Care
by Ross W. Duffin
This book, written by a musicologist and early music expert, is a bit of a polemic on the problems with modern equal-tempered tuning and how different tuning systems (especially the meantone systems) provide attractive solutions to those problems. It is more technical than Isacoff's book on tuning, and has a very different take on the value of equal temperament and the tuning systems it displaced. I'm not sure how much I buy into Duffin's argument, but this was a great book to read. No matter what conclusions I may come to regarding tuning, Duffin did a great job of laying out the issues and helping the reader to understand them and think about them.
by Ross W. Duffin
This book, written by a musicologist and early music expert, is a bit of a polemic on the problems with modern equal-tempered tuning and how different tuning systems (especially the meantone systems) provide attractive solutions to those problems. It is more technical than Isacoff's book on tuning, and has a very different take on the value of equal temperament and the tuning systems it displaced. I'm not sure how much I buy into Duffin's argument, but this was a great book to read. No matter what conclusions I may come to regarding tuning, Duffin did a great job of laying out the issues and helping the reader to understand them and think about them.
