Nicola #Vicentino: (1511-1572) "Musica prisca caput" (Roma 1555) - Madrigal for 4 voices, played on a 24-tone #harpsichord, tuned in #meantone temperament. Originally written for a vocal ensemble and an Archicembalo or an Arciorgano with 31 keys/octave. From Vicentino's treatise "L'antica musica ridotta alla prattica moderna", Rome 1555
Played by Johannes Keller. Harpsichord built by Tony Chinnery (after Grimaldi), keyboard built by Markus Krebs.
https://youtu.be/0akGtDPVRxk (2:46)
Recorded July 2013

Scala
https://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/
#ycombinator #Tuning #temperament #musical_scales #intonation #just_intonation #meantone #microtone #microtonal_music #toonschalen #synthesizer_tuning

https://algonoise.social/attachment/2969 I'm reading _How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care) _. I'm only 35 pages in. It's readable and does a fair job explaining how tuning systems work. Oddly, it seems to be aimed at non-musicians. It's also, like all books on tuning, slightly reactionary. Although it's much less ranty than Harry Partch.

Here's an experiment you can try at home: Use MIDI to send a major third to your sine tone generator. The first time I tried this, I thought my synthesiser was broken.

Computer/electronic music is not actually limited by the constraints of trying to get a keyboard to sound right, and yet we often use #12TET (keyboard tuning) without thinking about it.  What's your preferred approach to #tuning?

#JI #ET #JustIntonation #EqualTemprerament #Meantone #xenharmonic #microtone