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tuning system

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tuning system
n. Music
An ordered collection of intervals that can be precisely expressed by rational numbers.
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If you want to get him really revved up, ask him about his views on the tuning system known as equal temperament, ubiquitous in Western classical music.
EQUAL-OPPORTUNITY TONALITY by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
By this time, a modified tuning system had been developed that separated each octave into twelve separate tones.
Exercises in mental cartography: making new maps by Ashley, Seth / ETC.: A Review of General Semantics
While his unforced, unfussy playing would have been engaging in any tuning system, this detail made our total immersion in the Well-Tempered Clavier especially fascinating.
Richard Egarr by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
 
 
 
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