Temperament: How Music Became the Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization by Stuart Isacoff

Temperament: How Music Became the Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization

Stuart Isacoff

259 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction history music science informative medium-paced
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For hundreds of years, musicians, craftsmen, church officials, heads of state and philosophers fought against the introduction of equal temperament tuning. Stuart Isacoff recounts the battle that culminated in a victory for piano over harpsichord.

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