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45 relations: Accidental (music), Andreas Werckmeister, Arnolt Schlick, Baroque music, Chromatic scale, Circle of fifths, Classical period (music), David Bierens de Haan, Diatonic and chromatic, Douglas Leedy, Enharmonic, Enharmonic keyboard, Equal temperament, Francesco Antonio Vallotti, Harmony, Johann Sebastian Bach, John Tyrrell (musicologist), Just intonation, Key (music), Kirnberger temperament, Major and minor, Meantone temperament, Mode (music), Modulation (music), Music theory, Musical temperament, Musical tuning, Octave, Perfect fifth, Phonaesthetics, Pythagorean tuning, Quarter-comma meantone, Regular temperament, Simon Stevin, Solfège, Stanley Sadie, Syntonic comma, Temperament ordinaire, The Well-Tempered Clavier, Transposition (music), Vallotti temperament, Werckmeister temperament, Wolf interval, Young temperament, Zhu Zaiyu.
Accidental (music)
In music, an accidental is a note of a pitch (or pitch class) that is not a member of the scale or mode indicated by the most recently applied key signature.
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Andreas Werckmeister
Andreas Werckmeister (November 30, 1645 – October 26, 1706) was a German organist, music theorist, and composer of the Baroque era.
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Arnolt Schlick
Arnolt Schlick (July 18?,Keyl 1989, 110–11. c. 1455–1460 – after 1521) was a German organist, lutenist and composer of the Renaissance.
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Baroque music
Baroque music is a style of Western art music composed from approximately 1600 to 1750.
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Chromatic scale
The chromatic scale is a musical scale with twelve pitches, each a semitone above or below its adjacent pitches.
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Circle of fifths
In music theory, the circle of fifths (or circle of fourths) is the relationship among the 12 tones of the chromatic scale, their corresponding key signatures, and the associated major and minor keys.
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Classical period (music)
The Classical period was an era of classical music between roughly 1730 to 1820, associated with the style of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.
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David Bierens de Haan
David Bierens de Haan (3 May 1822, Amsterdam – 12 August 1895, Leiden) was a Dutch mathematician and historian of science.
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Diatonic and chromatic
Diatonic (διατονική) and chromatic (χρωματική) are terms in music theory that are most often used to characterize scales, and are also applied to musical instruments, intervals, chords, notes, musical styles, and kinds of harmony.
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Douglas Leedy
Douglas Leedy (March 3, 1938 - March 28, 2015) was an American composer, performer and music scholar.
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Enharmonic
In modern musical notation and tuning, an enharmonic equivalent is a note, interval, or key signature that is equivalent to some other note, interval, or key signature but "spelled", or named differently.
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Enharmonic keyboard
An enharmonic keyboard is a musical keyboard, where enharmonically equivalent notes do not have identical pitches.
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Equal temperament
An equal temperament is a musical temperament, or a system of tuning, in which the frequency interval between every pair of adjacent notes has the same ratio.
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Francesco Antonio Vallotti
Francesco Antonio Vallotti (11 June 1697 – 10 January 1780) was an Italian composer, music theorist, and organist.
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Harmony
In music, harmony considers the process by which the composition of individual sounds, or superpositions of sounds, is analysed by hearing.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a composer and musician of the Baroque period, born in the Duchy of Saxe-Eisenach.
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John Tyrrell (musicologist)
John Tyrrell (born 1942) is a British musicologist.
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Just intonation
In music, just intonation (sometimes abbreviated as JI) or pure intonation is any musical tuning in which the frequencies of notes are related by ratios of small whole numbers.
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Key (music)
In music theory, the key of a piece is the group of pitches, or scale, that forms the basis of a music composition in classical, Western art, and Western pop music.
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Kirnberger temperament
Kirnberger temperament is an irregular temperament developed in the second half of the 18th century by Johann Kirnberger.
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Major and minor
In Western music, the adjectives major and minor can describe a musical composition, movement, section, scale, key, chord, or interval.
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Meantone temperament
Meantone temperament is a musical temperament, that is a tuning system, obtained by slightly compromising the fifths in order to improve the thirds.
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Mode (music)
In the theory of Western music, a mode is a type of musical scale coupled with a set of characteristic melodic behaviors.
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Modulation (music)
In music, modulation is most commonly the act or process of changing from one key (tonic, or tonal center) to another.
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Music theory
Music theory is the study of the practices and possibilities of music.
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Musical temperament
In musical tuning, a temperament is a tuning system that slightly compromises the pure intervals of just intonation to meet other requirements.
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Musical tuning
In music, there are two common meanings for tuning.
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Octave
In music, an octave (octavus: eighth) or perfect octave is the interval between one musical pitch and another with half or double its frequency.
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Perfect fifth
In music theory, a perfect fifth is the musical interval corresponding to a pair of pitches with a frequency ratio of 3:2, or very nearly so.
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Phonaesthetics
Phonaesthetics (from the φωνή phōnē, "voice-sound"; and αἰσθητική aisthētikē, "aesthetics") is a branch of phonetics concerned with "the possible connection between sound sequences and meaning", according to Raymond Hickey.
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Pythagorean tuning
Pythagorean tuning is a system of musical tuning in which the frequency ratios of all intervals are based on the ratio 3:2.
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Quarter-comma meantone
Quarter-comma meantone, or -comma meantone, was the most common meantone temperament in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and was sometimes used later.
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Regular temperament
Regular temperament is any tempered system of musical tuning such that each frequency ratio is obtainable as a product of powers of a finite number of generators, or generating frequency ratios.
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Simon Stevin
Simon Stevin (1548–1620), sometimes called Stevinus, was a Flemish mathematician, physicist and military engineer.
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Solfège
In music, solfège or solfeggio, also called sol-fa, solfa, solfeo, among many names, is a music education method used to teach pitch and sight singing of Western music.
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Stanley Sadie
Stanley John Sadie, CBE (30 October 1930 – 21 March 2005) was an influential and prolific British musicologist, music critic, and editor.
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Syntonic comma
In music theory, the syntonic comma, also known as the chromatic diesis, the comma of Didymus, the Ptolemaic comma, or the diatonic comma is a small comma type interval between two musical notes, equal to the frequency ratio 81:80 (.
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Temperament ordinaire
The phrase temperament ordinaire (French tempérament ordinaire, meaning literally "ordinary temperament" or "usual temperament") is a term for musical intonation, particularly the tempered tuning of keyboard instruments.
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The Well-Tempered Clavier
The Well-Tempered Clavier, BWV 846–893, is a collection of two sets of preludes and fugues in all 24 major and minor keys, composed for solo keyboard by Johann Sebastian Bach.
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Transposition (music)
In music transposition refers to the process, or operation, of moving a collection of notes (pitches or pitch classes) up or down in pitch by a constant interval.
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Vallotti temperament
Vallotti temperament (or simply Vallotti, Vallotti-Barca, or Vallotti-Tartini) is a slightly modified version of a well temperament devised by the 18th-century organist, composer, and music theorist, Francesco Vallotti.
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Werckmeister temperament
Werckmeister temperaments are the tuning systems described by Andreas Werckmeister in his writings.
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Wolf interval
In music theory, the wolf fifth (sometimes also called Procrustean fifth, or imperfect fifth) Paul, Oscar (1885).
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Young temperament
"Young temperament" may refer to either of a pair of well temperaments described by Thomas Young in a letter dated July 9, 1799, to the Royal Society of London.
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Zhu Zaiyu
Zhu Zaiyu (1536 – 19 May 1611) was a Chinese mathematician, physicist, choreographer, and musician.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well_temperament
