| Alternate Temperaments: Theory and Philosophy - Introduction to tuning systems, based on the cents system. Written by Terry Blackburn.
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| An Introduction to Historical Tunings - On the development of tuning systems in Medieval Europe (Kirnberger, Young, and mean-tone systems).
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| Justonic Tuning Inc. - Pitch Palette software tunes a microtunable synthesizer to just intonation, world scales, historic scales and user scales in real time.
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| A Beginner's Guide to Temperament - Written by Stephen Bicknell for the electronic mailing list Piporg-l.
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| An Atlas of Consonance - The author presents a graphical tool for the visualization of consonance and dissonance, based on an acoustical model of the interaction of musical tones.
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| Comparison of Temperaments - Table comparing various temperaments, including Equal Temperament, Pythagorean, another natural tuning, two mean-tone tunings, two Well temperaments, two Indian tunings, and two Persian tunings.
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| Keyboard temperament analyzer/calculator - Bradley Lehman - Excel spreadsheet that analyzes keyboard temperaments: gives beat rates for tuning, and harmonic-tension charts in all keys.
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| Tantrum - Tool for the study of temperament anomalies.
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| World Scale Depository - Construction of a reference center of scale measurements throughout the world.
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| Pythagorean Tuning and Medieval Polyphony - Article by Margo Schulter.
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| Historical Tuning - Includes information on the differences between equal temperament and well temperament and why Bach rejected equal temperament and celebrated well temperament.
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| Modes and Scales in Indian Music - Article by David Courtney.
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| Huygens-Fokker Foundation - Center for microtonal music. Promotes microtonal music in all its forms
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| Johann Sebastian Bach: Well Tempered Tuning (Wohltemperirt) - Paper on the history of the tuning system, as well as information about tuning a harpsichord in this system.
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| The Argument for Equal Temperament - Lerdahl's cognitive constraints.
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| Tuning and Temperament Bibliography - Huge list of print books, magazines, and journal articles on tuning systems.
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| Understanding Temperaments - Tunings used for harpsichords.
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| Tuning by Ratios - This paper explores the use of simple ratios to tune musical intervals and chords. Included are a tutorial, a set of computer programs, and a re-tuned two-part invention by J.S. Bach.
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| Equal Temperament Tuning - An introduction to equal temperament for guitarists who have problems tuning their guitars.
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| A Tour Up The Harmonic Series - Basic introduction to the Pythagorean circle of fifths and the physical basis for the need for alternative tuning systems.
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| The History of Musical Tuning and Temperament - Two academic papers, covering music before 1750, and music during the Classical and Romantic periods.
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