Learning about Historical Temperaments

[Mike and Jane Spalding]

List,

Here's a list of resources I put together for a presentation to our chapter a while back.  Many/most have been discussed on this list, but someone just getting started it may be helpful to have them all in one post.  Critiques and additions would be appreciated.

Mike Spalding, RPT

Websites:

http://www.millersrus.com/avery/   Lists the offsets from ET for a large number of  historical temperaments.

http://www.billbremmer.com   Website of  Bill Bremmer, RPT,  developer of a modern Well Temperament, which he has named "Equal Beating Victorian Temperament".

http://users.bestweb.net/~rmp/book.html   Book for sale:  "Historical Tuning of Keyboard Instruments" (Don't know if this book is any good)

http://www.midicode.com/tunings/temperament.shtml#T5J  The development of Musical Tuning Systems, by Peter Frazer.  This is a large and comprehensive site, lots of tables and charts.  Covers the complete history starting with ancient Greece.

http://www.ma.utexas.edu/~miker/tuning/tuning.html  The Conspiracy of Equal Temperament, by Michael Rubenstein.  Rubenstein is a pianist who recently discovered the Thomas Young Well Temperament.  

http://www.gasparo.com/   Order the Ed Foote / Enid Katahn recordings "Six Degrees of Tonality" and "Beethoven In The Temperaments".

Recordings:

Six Degrees of Tonality, A Well Tempered Piano.  Enid Katahn, pianist.  Music by Scarlatti,  Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, and Grieg.  Tunings by Ed Foote, RPT include ¼ Comma Meantone, Prelleur, Kirnberger III, Young, DeMorgan, and Coleman 11.  Gasparo Records, see websites

Beethoven In The Temperaments.  Enid Katahn, Pianist.  Pathetique and Opus 14 #1 in Prinz temperament, Waldstein and Moonlight in Thomas Young Temperament. Gasparo Records, see websites

Radoslav Kvapil Plays Frederic Chopin.  Recorded at Farley's House of Pianos, Madison, WI.  Tuned to Jean-Baptiste Romieu Modified Meantone by Daniel Eberhardy.

Journal Articles:

Vol. 45 #2, Feb 2002, pg 28:  "Pythagoras & Musical Scale Development", StClair Logan.

Vol. 44 #12, Dec 2001, pg 18:  "The Historical Temperaments Simplified", Owen Jorgensen.