Comma Meantone

Comma (music) - Commas in Different Contexts - Alternative Definitions
... In quarter-comma meantone, and any kind of meantone temperament tuning system which tempers the fifth to a size smaller than 700 cents, the comma is a diminished second ... In Pythagorean tuning, and any kind of meantone temperament tuning system which tempers the fifth to a size larger than 700 cents (such as 1/12-comma meantone), the comma ... For instance, the Pythagorean comma can be computed as the difference between a chromatic and a diatonic semitone, which is the opposite of a Pythagorean diminished second ...

Meantone Organs In North America - Chamber Organs and Practice Instruments - Historic Organs
... St Luke's Church (Smithfield, VA) ... Chamber organ, 1630, England ...

Gioseffo Zarlino - Works and Influence
... may have been the first theorist to describe a version of meantone, Zarlino seems to have been the first to do so with exactitude, describing 2/7-comma meantone in ... Zarlino also described the 1/4-comma meantone and 1/3-comma meantone, considering all three temperaments to be usable ...

Syntonic Temperament
... intervals from a stack of tempered perfect fifths and tempers the syntonic comma to unison ... This is the same definition as that of the meantone temperament ... can be viewed as a systematic extension of the meantone temperament beyond the range imposed by the meantone temperament's need to remain consonant with timbres that conform to the harmonic series ...

Francisco De Salinas
... music theorist and organist, noted as among the first to describe meantone temperament in mathematically precise terms, and one of the first (along with ... In his De musica libri septem of 1577 he discusses 1/3-, 1/4- and 2/7-comma meantone tunings ... Of 1/3-comma meantone, which is essentially identical to the meantone of 19-et, he remarks that it is "languid" but not "offensive to the ear", and he notes that a keyboard of 19 tones to the octave ...