Daniel Shoskes wrote: >While not technically a lute book, Ross Duffin (music professor at >Case Western) has published a book on temperment entitled: >How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care) >It is available here at amazon: <http://www.amazon.com/Equal-Temperament-Ruined-Harmony-Should/dp/ 0393062279/sr=8-1/qid=1171162277/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-8479148-9537558? ie=UTF8&s=books> >I am mid way through the book. Very entertaining with a minimum of >necessary technical jargon. No specific mention of fretted >instruments however. >Nevertheless, a compelling read for those considering entering the >meantone tuning world. >DS This came up on the EM list:
Adam Funk: > I'm reading Duffin's book "How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony". He > hasn't *quite* said there's a conspiracy to suppress evidence against > ET, but I'm only halfway through.... On the other hand, there's an article by Rudolf Rasch in the Tercentenary Essays volume some years back that stops just this side of saying that there has been a vast conspiracy to suppress evidence for ET as the natural meaning of "wohltemperiert" to Bach and his contemporaries. -- Roland Hutchinson To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
