For those interested in ET before 1850 I found these in a Pythogorean Tuning document on the web. If you find Zarlino in a library in English please let me know. ---ric To Table of Contents. http://www.medieval.org/emfaq/harmony/pyth.html Margo Schulter mschulter@value.net Sacramento, CA 10 June 1998 <<<<<<<< Zarlino, Gioseffo, 1588. Sopplimenti Musicali del Rev. M. Gioseffo Zarlino da Chioggia, Maestro di Cappella della Sereniss. Signoria di Venetia. Venice: Francesco de' Franceschi. Reprinted New York: Broude Brothers (c. 1980). ISBN 0845022156. Zarlino's paraphrase of arguments by his friend the Abbot Girolamo Roselli in favor of a division of the octave into 12 equal semitones appears in Book 4, Chapter 31, p. 212; for a partial translation, see Lindley 1980c, at p. 665. The reference to Lindley is Lindley, Mark, 1980c. "Temperaments," New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 18:660-674, ed. Stanley Sadie. Washington, DC: Grove's Dictionaries of Music. ISBN 0333231112. This concise survey gives an overview of developments from the late 15th century on, with a large bibliography. >>>>>>>>>>>>
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