Description
| Product ID: | 9781906999735 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Intervals, Scales, Tones |
| Subtitle: | And the Concert Pitch c = 128 Hz |
| Authors: | Author: Maria Renold, Bevis Stevens |
| Page Count: | 208 |
| Subjects: | Theory of music and musicology, Theory of music & musicology, Techniques of music / music tutorials / teaching of music, Techniques of music / music tutorials |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Why is it that certain intervals, scales and tones sound genuine and others false? Is the modern person able to experience a qualitative difference in a tone's pitch? If so, what are the implications for modern concert pitch and how instruments of fixed tuning are tuned? Maria Renold tackles these and many other questions, providing a wealth of scientific data. Her pioneering work is the result of a lifetime's research into Western music's Classical Greek origins, as well as a search for new developments in modern times. She strives to deepen musical understanding through Rudolf Steiner's spiritual-scientific research, and she also elucidates many of Steiner's often puzzling statements about music. The results of her work include the following discoveries: that the octave has two sizes (a 'genuine' sounding octave is bigger than the 'perfect' octave); that there are three sizes of 'perfect' fifths; that an underlying 'form principle' for all scales can be found; and, most importantly, the discovery of a method of tuning the piano which is more satisfactory than equal temperament. She also gives foundation to some of Rudolf Steiner's statements such as: 'c is always prime' and 'c = 128 Hz = Sun'. |
| Imprint Name: | Temple Lodge Publishing |
| Publisher Name: | Temple Lodge Publishing |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2015-01-27 |