A consonance-based approach to the harpsichord tuning of Domenico Scarlatti

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 2332-2337

  Sankey, John ^a   Sethares, William A ^b  

^a University of Wisconsin ^*  (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; INSTRUMENT; MUSIC; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND INTENSITY; TUNING CURVE;

EID: 0030946406     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.418212     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. J. Barnes, "Bach's keyboard temperament; Internal evidence from the Well-Tempered Clavier," Early Music 7, 236-249 (1979).
2. W. A. Sethares, "Local consonance and the relationship between tuning and timbre," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 94, 1218-1228 (1993).
3. R. Plomp and W. J. M. Levelt, "Tonal consonance and critical band-width," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 38, 548-560 (1965).
4. The files are currently available on the Internet at ftp://ftp.cs.ruu.nl/pub/MIDI/SONGS/CLASSICAL/SCARLATTI/.
5. W. A. Sethares, "Adaptive tunings for musical scales," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 96, 10-18 (1994).
6. R. Kirkpatrick, Domenico Scarlatti (Princeton U.P., Princeton, NJ, 1953).
7. See Fig. 3 in Sethares (Ref. 2).
8. P-Y. Asselin, Musique et tempérament (Éditions Costallat, Paris, 1985).