ET in 1588 a reference

[Richard Moody]

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.
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To Table of Contents. http://www.medieval.org/emfaq/harmony/pyth.html

Margo Schulter
mschulter@value.net
Sacramento, CA
10 June 1998

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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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