Keyboard temperament analyzer/calculator - Bradley Lehman.
Excel spreadsheet that analyzes keyboard temperaments:
gives beat rates for tuning, and harmonic-tension charts in all keys.
Making Microtonal Music with Software:
A blog documenting my experiments in inherently ill-documented experimental music production systems ...
Thanks to the MakeMicroMusic Yahoo group and in particular Graham Breed and Manuel Op de Coul, I've successfully learned how to create arbitrarily tuned musics with the software audio compiler system, Timidity, the popular microtonal tuning software, Scala and public domain soundfonts. This article is an attempt at documenting this powerful, but needlessly difficult to learn process ...
This page is a discussion of Fred Lerdahl's article "Cognitive Constraints on Compositional Systems.
In the article, Lerdahl explores the relationship between composing and listening...
In the eighteenth century there is a gradual change in the appreciation of the one-keyed flute. In the beginning it is the new sweetly voiced instrument. It is pushing the recorder completely out of the picture. However during the eighteenth century there is more and more criticism. This criticism aims both at the vagueness of certain tones and at the tuning problems....
One aspect of medieval music now receiving much interest is the matter of tuning. This FAQ article is intended to explain the system of tuning in perfect fifths commonly known as "Pythagorean intonation," its interaction with the stylistic traits of medieval polyphony, and its relationship to other systems of tuning.
While our focus here is on the music of medieval Europe, the concept of a tuning based on a series of twelve notes in perfect fifths also plays an important part in other world musical traditions, for example in Chinese theory and practice.
Providing a simple and elegant way of generating a musical scale, this tuning system may have a special appeal for styles of harmony where fifths and fourths are the most favored intervals, as is true in the ensemble music of Chinese and related traditions, for example, as well as in medieval European polyphony....
The biological calendar that predicts the season for birth is a lunar calendar that, in humans, has somehow become the diatonic scale of music. A four-way correlation will be shown between the Meton lunar calendar, Fibonacci’s rabbit sequence, coral spawning record and both major and natural minor diatonic scales of music....