Temperament : how music became a battleground for the great minds of Western civilization /

Isacoff, Stuart.

Temperament : how music became a battleground for the great minds of Western civilization / Stuart Isacoff. - 1st Vintage Books ed. - New York : Vintage, 2003. - 277 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

"With a new afterword"--P. [4] cover. Originally published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-267) and index.

0375703306 9780375703300


Musical temperament--History.
Musical intervals and scales.
Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.
Musical temperamento--Historia.
Intervalos y escalas musicales.
Música--Filosofía y estética.

ML 3809 / I74t 2003

784.192