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Ancient Tuning Methods


Ancient Tuning Methods - Michael Levy

In antiquity, lyres were tuned either cyclically, in perfect 5ths, the 3rds & 6ths then being fine-tuned by ear (Pythagorean tuning) or divisively.

An Introduction to Historical Tunings - Kyle Gann

Meantone tuning appeared sometime around the late 15th century, and was used widely through the early 18th century.

Tuning and temperament - Musical History, Pitch, Intervals | Britannica

Tuning and temperament - Musical History, Pitch, Intervals: It is seldom realized what an important effect tuning practices have had on the development of ...

Tuning Without a Tuner, the Ancient Way - by Lina Palera ... - YouTube

... tuning approach on an ancient lyre, and decide which of them suits you the best! Lina Palera and LyreAcademy.com present exclusively on ...

Finding Authentic Tunings For An Ancient Lyre - Michael Levy

With the divisively tuned chromatic scale downloads kindly provided by John Wheeler (please see my other blog, "Ancient Tuning Methods") it is ...

Tuning and temperament - Classic Systems, Pitch, Intervals

Tuning and temperament - Classic Systems, Pitch, Intervals: Of the two ancient ... tuning methods, they were dissonances. In Pythagorean tuning, only the bare ...

How to Play on the Ancient Modes (Lyre 203) | LyreAcademy

Tune in all the ancient modes: Dorios, Ypodorios, Phrygios, Ypophrygios ... technique. Lyre 203: Discover the Ancient Greek Modes. Lyre 301: Master 6 ...

How did ancient Greek musicians tune their instruments?

The tuning fork has only been around since 1711 so there is no way that the ancient Greeks used a tuning fork to tune their instruments.

Pythagorean Tuning - (Music History – Medieval) - Fiveable

This method emphasizes the mathematical relationships between pitches and was influential in the development of musical theory and practice during the medieval ...

Musical system of ancient Greece - Wikipedia

The musical system of ancient Greece evolved over a period of more than 500 years from simple scales of tetrachords, or divisions of the perfect fourth, ...

Pythagorean Tuning - Bibliographical references

This fascinating article on mathematics and music surveys the theory of Pythagorean tuning and its offshoots from ancient Greece to contemporary Europe and ...

Tuning a Lyre to the Just Intonation of Antiquity - YouTube

using the world's first iPod 'Just Intonation Ancient Lyre Tuning App'!! ... For more details, please also see my blogs on ancient tuning methods: ...

Historical Notes: a Brief Chronicle of the Tuning Fork

In the process he invented an optical method for calibrating tuning forks using so-called Lissajous figures (see photo), which proved to be of great utility in ...

How were instruments tuned in the medieval times when there was ...

You would tune to something known as as stringed instrument… Probably a whistle, pipe, or flute if one was available.

The Musical Instruments from Ur and Ancient Mesopotamian Music

Scales and Tuning in Ancient Music. Among the many cuneiform tablets ... tuning procedure starts. Two of these important technical texts came from ...

"The Japanese Shakuhachi: Comparing the Ancient Tuning ...

Beginning in Edo-era Japan as an ostensibly religious instrument, the shakuhachi was at first played with a similar technique to its predecessor, the hitoyogiri ...

Rahn, Was Mesopotamian Tuning Diatonic? - Music Theory Online

However, as there is no evidence of such devices for tuning in Mesopotamia 1500 years earlier, the present study focuses on the possibility that Mesopotamian ...

Tuning system in ancient Chinese Bells - Neuroscience of Music

Considering the fifths and the thirds in the scale DEFGAC, it is obvious that the tuning focus was on pure thirds, not on pure fifths. The awareness of pure ...

Ancient Greek ideas of attunement can breathe new life into music

The attunements of the ancient Greek musicians, as a method of micro-tuning, let them significantly alter the overall tonal and melodic feel ...

Musical tuning - Wikipedia

Tuning practice, the act of tuning an instrument or voice. · Tuning systems, the various systems of pitches used to tune an instrument, and their theoretical ...