Intervals, Scales, Tones And the Concert Pitch C = 128 Hz - Couverture souple

Renold, Maria

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1906999732 ISBN 13 : 9781906999735

Editeur : Temple Lodge Publishing, 2015

Synopsis

Why is it that certain intervals, scales, and tones sound genuine, while others sound 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?

Renold tackles these and many other questions and provides a wealth of scientific data. Her pioneering work is the result of a lifetime of research into the Classical Greek origin of Western music and the search for modern developments. She deepens our musical understanding by using Rudolf Steiner's spiritual science as a basis, and she elucidates many of his puzzling statements about music.

The results of her work include the following discoveries:

- The octave has two sizes (a 'genuine' sounding octave is bigger than the "perfect octave")
- There are three sizes of "perfect fifths"
- An underlying "form principle" for all scales can be found
- Equal temperament is not the most satisfactory method of tuning a piano
- She provides a basis for some of Steiner's statements, such as, "C is always prime" and "C = 128 Hz = Sun."

Intervals, Scales, Tones is a valuable resource for those who wish to understand the deeper, spiritual aspects of music.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Maria Renold (1917-2003) spent her childhood in the United States, where her parents emigrated to found a eurythmy school in New York. She studied eurythmy and later violin and viola and toured with the Bush Chamber Orchestra and the Bush String Quartet. One of Maria Renold's deeply-felt questions concerned the correct concert pitch. When she heard of Rudolf Steiner's concert pitch suggestion of c = 128 Hz she put it into practice immediately, and experimented with it over many years in America and Europe. She also discovered a new method of tuning the piano, closer to the tuning of stringed instruments, arriving at the concert pitch of a1 = 432 Hz. First published in German in 1985, her book has become a modern classic of musical research.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Temple Lodge Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1906999732
• ISBN 13: 9781906999735
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 208
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• Personne responsable: non disponible