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Temperament : The Idea That Solved Music's Greatest Riddle by Stuart M. Isacoff
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- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- Personalize
- No
- Signed By
- Stuart Isacoff
- Signed
- Yes
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Personalized
- No
- Features
- Dust Jacket
- Original Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Inscribed
- No
- Vintage
- No
- ISBN
- 9780375403552
- Book Title
- Temperament : the Idea That Solved Music's Greatest Riddle
- Item Length
- 7.8in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2001
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Genre
- Music
- Topic
- History & Criticism, Philosophy & Social Aspects, General, Musical Instruments / Piano & Keyboard, Instruction & Study / Theory
- Item Width
- 5.2in
- Item Weight
- 13.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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A fascinating and hugely original book that explains how a vexing technical puzzle was solved, making possible some of the most exquisite music ever written. From the days of the ancient Greeks, the creation of music was thought to be governed by divine and immutable mathematical certainties. But over time skeptics came to understand that those rules limited harmonic possibilities. InTemperament, we see the traditionalists and the innovators battling across the centuries, engaging great thinkers like Newton, Kepler, and Descartes 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 scale should be selected. The breakthrough came in the eighteenth century, when the modern keyboard was given perfect musical symmetry through a tuning of equal temperament, each pitch reliably equidistant from the ones that precede and follow it. This tuning allows a musical pattern begun on one note to be duplicated when starting on any other; it creates a musical universe in which the relationships 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 narrative.Temperamentis a jewel of a book.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375403558
ISBN-13
9780375403552
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1933099
Product Key Features
Book Title
Temperament : the Idea That Solved Music's Greatest Riddle
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
History & Criticism, Philosophy & Social Aspects, General, Musical Instruments / Piano & Keyboard, Instruction & Study / Theory
Publication Year
2001
Genre
Music
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.8in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
13.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ml3809.I83 2001
Reviews
"[Temperament's] most persuasive weapon is the unquenchable passion of its author. An immensely entertaining, original and informative book." --The Economist "Charming... a whirlwind tour of Western culture's big ideas." --The Los Angeles Times "This lucid, humanist study is as much fun to read as a murder mystery." --The San Jose Mercury News "A sweeping history of medieval and Renaissance European intellectual achievement, in which the question of tuning... assumes a speaking part." --Time Out New York "A work of real virtuosity. An exciting musical tour through Western Civilization that reads like a thriller, filled with intrigue, discovery, jealousy, failure and triumph. It's a fabulous exploration of the forces that influenced the wonderful music we hear today." Andre Watts "A stimulating, illuminating and entertaining look at a fascinating musical subject." --Charles Rosen
Copyright Date
2001
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2001-033805
Dewey Decimal
784.192/8
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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