equal temperament
Americannoun
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But it also loses in the process a richness, making me wonder what might have happened were it played in a more acoustically natural equal temperament.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2017
He had tuned his harpsichord not to the relatively smooth, equal temperament of modern times, he explained, but to a “severe” mean-tone temperament used in the early 17th century.
From New York Times • Jan. 13, 2017
Meanwhile there was no such thing back then as equal temperament.
From The Guardian • Dec. 29, 2016
“Learning a major scale in equal temperament, you’re internalizing an entire worldview,” he said.
From New York Times • Dec. 16, 2016
If it bothers you that the ratios in equal temperament are roots, remember the pure octaves and fifths of the harmonic series.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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