For most Western musicians since the 18th century, the tuning system known as equal temperament is the structural bedrock of musical life. By compromising the pure harmonies of the natural world - ...

A few years ago, [Chad] wanted to build a musical instrument. Not just any musical instrument, mind you, but one with just intonation. Where modern western music maps 12 semitones onto a logarithmic ...

In a 1959 educational recording titled the Theory and Practice of Just Intonation musicologist J. Murray Barbour wrote, “The ideal ‘Just Intonation’ may be fully attainable in some musical fourth ...

ONE of those subjects which periodically turn up for discussion, and then vanish for an interval of neglect, is the possibility of obtaining just intonation in the performance of music. Those who have ...

DR. STONE'S lectures on “Sound and Music,” just published, lead one to expect that notwithstanding the formidable appearance of some of the key-boards exhibited at South Kensington, the cause of ...