A simplification of this scheme leads to a tuning method – “just intonation” – that involves smaller ratios and is more ...

A LETTER from Dr. R. H. Bellairs, of Cheltenham, appeared in the Times of June 14, describing the performance “by a wild bird, probably a thrush, of the arpeggio of the common chord in tune, ...

The present study investigates the relationship between musical experience and subjects' conception of accurate tuning. In a paired comparisons experiment, 7 violinists, 7 pianists, and 10 ...

AN attempt to reconstruct the Soft Diatonic mode leads to the following nine-note scale, which combines perfectly with the diatonic scale with the exception of F (3: 4),—the key-note, dominant, ...