Temperamento. Storia di un enigma musicale
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Osservare oggi la tastiera di un pianoforte, con la sua ordinata successione di tasti bianchi e neri, potrebbe indurre a immaginare la scala musicale come un concetto ordinato e stabile. Eppure per secoli quel particolare metodo di accordatura che ne costituisce il fondamento, il cosiddetto "temperamento equabile", è stato considerato un crimine contro Dio e la natura. Filosofi, artisti e scienziati come Pitagora, Fiatone, Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo, Keplero, Descartes, Newton, Rousseau e Diderot se ne sono fatti paladini o vi si sono scagliati contro, utilizzando ogni arma dialettica a propria disposizione, in un clima di violenta e continua controversia. Dietro le loro parole e i loro trattati si intravede il mondo della musica e del musicisti, con la sua peculiare miscela di ricerca del nuovo e piacere del suono, di pensiero e artigianato. In un libro impeccabilmente documentato ma al tempo stesso traboccante di prospettive originali, aneddoti curiosi e ritratti umanissimi di alcuni tra i più grandi geni di tutti i tempi, Isacoff introduce il lettore a una vicenda della nostra civiltà musicale di inaspettata complessità e ricchezza, riuscendo a mantenere una vivacità e un ritmo narrativo degni di un romanzo.
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- Pagine: 295
- Data di uscita: 24-11-2005
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I thoroughly enjoyed this book but found myself wishing for a companion CD with proper musical examples. YouTube was an utter failure as a resource.
Temperament is interesting enough that the author could have concentrated on it. However, he wants to talk about lots and lots of other things. The book does mention the arithmetic of temperament a bit, but I wish it had been more focused. This isn't the only book with the following problem: Books th Leggi tutto
For the most part, an interesting if quite basic study of the Quadrivium and the Scientific Revolution. It would probably be better suited for neophytes of cultural history if not for the fact that there is a lot crammed between these pages that has the potential to be overwhelming. I admire the bro Leggi tutto
This book is… just ok. As a history, it falls into the traps of straying from its main topic (music) too often, including too many irrelevant quirky tidbits and asides, and making it difficult for the reader to identify the through-line of the temperament debate from era to era. I would often lose t Leggi tutto
Couldn’t finish it. The author includes an overwhelming and unnecessary amount of historical context. The development of tuning systems is addressed sporadically throughout the text. You lose the main thread. Try How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony instead.
4 1/4 stars
When I started piano lessons in the fourth grade, I clearly remember my piano teacher explaining the way the notes are organized on the piano and on sheet music, and it was like an explosion in my brain to learn that music is also math. I LOVED IT. I’ve always wanted to understand it better. It took Leggi tutto
This managed to give me some background in the temperament debate, but was not all it promised to be. The facts are remarkable enough - it seems every great scientist and thinker of the 17th and 18th century had something to say about this, which I never would have guessed. But Isacoff begins badly, Leggi tutto
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