English-Russian dictionary of musical terminology. 2015.
Meantone temperament — is a musical temperament, which is a system of musical tuning. In general, a meantone is constructed the same way as Pythagorean tuning, as a stack of perfect fifths, but in meantone, each fifth is narrow compared to the ratio 27/12:1 in 12 equal … Wikipedia
Meantone organs in North America — Pipe organs that are tuned in meantone temperament are very rare in North America. They are listed here, by type of temperament and sorted by date of construction. North America is defined here as Canada, the United States of America and Mexico.… … Wikipedia
meantone temperament — ▪ music system of tuning keyboard instruments (keyboard instrument), prevalent from c. 1500 through the 18th century. It enabled keyboard instruments to play in five or six closely related keys, rather than in only one key. The system… … Universalium
meantone — … Useful english dictionary
meantone system — /meen tohn /, Music. a system for tuning keyboard instruments, used before the development of tuning by equal temperament and considered practical only for tonalities of not more than two sharps or flats. [1790 1800; MEAN3 + TONE] * * * … Universalium
meantone system — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun : a system of tuning keyboard instruments used before the adoption of equal temperament and based on a standard interval of a mean between a major and a minor whole tone of just intonation or one half of an acoustically pure major … Useful english dictionary
Septimal meantone temperament — In music, septimal meantone temperament, also called standard septimal meantone or simply septimal meantone , refers to the tempering of 7 limit musical intervals by a meantone temperament tuning in the range from fifths flattened by the amount… … Wikipedia
Quarter-comma meantone — was the most common meantone temperament in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and was sometimes used later. In this tuning the perfect fifth is tempered by one quarter of a syntonic comma in order to obtain just major thirds (5:4). It was… … Wikipedia
List of meantone intervals — The following is a list of intervals of meantone temperament. These intervals constitute the standard vocabulary of intervals for the Western common practice era. Here 12 EDO refers to the size of the interval in 12 equal divisions of the octave… … Wikipedia
Semitone — This article is about the musical interval. For the printing method, see halftone. semitone Inverse major seventh (for minor second); diminished octave (for augmented unison); augmented octave (for diminished unison) Name Other names minor second … Wikipedia
Comma (music) — Syntonic comma on C Play ( … Wikipedia
