Temperament: How Music Became A Battleground For The Great Minds Of Western Civilisation by Stuart Isacoff

Temperament: How Music Became A Battleground For The Great Minds Of Western Civilisation

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 heatedly against the introduction of 'equal temperament' tuning. Stuart Isacoff, editor of Pianom Today magazine, recounts this great battle ove...

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