The Library

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Periodicals

• 1/1: The Journal of the Just Intonation Network. 1985-2007.
  • All volumes (1-12) are available for purchase on Frog Peak Music.
• Interval, Journal of Music Research and Development. 1978-1987.
  • Related history available in the Interval Archive.
• Xenharmonikôn, An Informal Journal of Experimental Music [print publication]. 1974-1998.
  • All volumes (1-18) are available for purchase on Frog Peak Music.
• Xenharmonikon [online publication]. 2018-present.
• Experimental Musical Instruments, 1985-1999.
  • Available in the Internet Archive.

Papers

• Bosanquet, R. H. M. "Temperament; Or, the Division of the Octave [Part I]". Proceedings of the Musical Association, 1874-1875.
• Bosanquet, R. H. M. "Temperament; Or, the Division of the Octave [Part II]". Proceedings of the Musical Association, 1874-1875.
• Christensen, Thomas and Jean-Philippe Rameau. "Eighteenth-Century Science and the Corps Sonore: The Scientific Background to Rameau's Principle of Harmony". Journal of Music Theory", Spring 1987.
• Erlich, Paul. A Middle Path: Between Just Intonation and the Equal Temperaments. Xenharmonikôn, An Informal Journal of Experimental Music, Summer 2006.
• Gruber, Albion. "Mersenne and Evolving Tonal Theory". Journal of Music Theory", Spring 1970.
• Kuttner, Fritz A. "Prince Chu Tsai-Yü's Life and Work: A Re-Evaluation of His Contribution to Equal Temperament Theory". Ethnomusicology, May 1975.
• Milne, Andrew, William Sethares & James Plamondon. "Tuning continua and keyboard layouts". Journal of Mathematics and Music, August 29, 2008.
• Reinhard, Johnny. 8th Octave Overtone Tuning. New York: Stereo Society, 2001.
• Werntz, Julia. "Adding Pitches: Some New Thoughts, Ten Years after Perspectives of New Music's 'Forum: Microtonality Today'". Perspectives of New Music, Summer 2001.

Dissertations

• Adkins, Cecil Dale. The Theory and Practice of the Monochord. State University of Iowa, Ph.D., 1963.
• Ayers, Lydia. Exploring microtonal tunings : a kaleidoscope of extended just tunings and their compositional applications. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, D.M.A thesis, 1994.
• Baker, Gene V. The name of Zeus : notions of trance and the 17-note microtonal "Chancey". Mills College, M.F.A thesis, 2004.
• Battan, Suzette Mary. Alois Hába’s Neue Harmonielehre des diatonischen, chromatischen, Viertel-, Drittel-, Sechstel- und Zwölftel-Tonsystems. University of Rochester, Ph.D., 1980.
• Burle, Jan. An Application for the Calculated Consonance in Computer-Assisted Microtonal Music. Ph.D., 2013.
• Burt, Warren. Algorithms, microtonality, performance: eleven musical compositions, Ph.D., 2007.
• Carey, Norman A. Distribution Modulo 1 and Musical Scales. University of Rochester, Ph.D., 1998.
• Clampitt, David. Pairwise Well-formed Scales: Structural and Transformational Properties. SUNY at Buffalo, Ph.D., 1997.
• Djordjevic, Michael, L. Discrete Tone Relations Determined by the Hearing Phenomenon within Five-Dimensional Sound-Musical Continuum. Radio Belgrade, Ph.D., 1995.
• Douthett, Jack. The Theory of Maximally and Minimally Even Sets, the One-Dimensional Antiferromagnetic Ising Model, and the Continued Fraction Compromise of Musical Scales. University of New Mexico, Ph.D., 1999.
• Ederer, Eric. The Theory and Praxis of Makam in Classical Turkish Music 1910-2010. University of California Santa Barbara, Ph.D., 2011.
• Farhat, Hormoz. The Dastgah Concept in Persian Music. University of California, Los Angeles, Ph.D., 1965.
• Ferrer, Rafael. The Role of Timbre in the Memorization of Microtonal Intervals. Tecnológico de Monterrey, Ph. D., 2007.
• Green, Burdette Lamar. The Harmonic Series from Mersenne to Rameau: An Historical Study of Circumstances Leading to its Recognition and Application to Music. The Ohio State University, Ph.D., 1969.
• Hearne, Lillian M. Towards a new model of microtonal music: The regular temperaments of 22TET. UWA School of Music, honors thesis dissertation, 2014.
• Heraty, Johanne Paula. The Microtonal Music of Ezra Sims. University College Dublin, Ph.D., 2011.
• Kassel, Richard M. The Evolution of Harry Partch's Monophony. CUNY, Ph.D., 1996.
• Maltz, Richard Steven. Microtonal techniques in Charles Ives's 'Three quarter-tone pieces for two pianos', Harry Patch's 'And the seventh day petals fell in Petaluma', and Ben Johnston's 'Fourth string quartet'. University of South Carolina, Ph.D., 1991.
• Mandelbaum, Joel. Multiple Division of the Octave and the Tonal Resources of 19-Tone Temperament. Indiana University, Ph.D., 1961.
• Milne, Andrew J., A Computational Model for the Cognition of Tonality. Western Sydney University, Ph.D., 2013.
• Pohlit, Stefan. Julien Jalâl Ed-Dine Weiss: A Novel Tuning System for the Middle-Eastern Qanun. Istanbul Technical University, Ph.D., 2011.
• Quinn, Ian. A Unified Theory of Chord Quality in Equal Temperaments. Eastman School of Music, Ph.D., 2004.
• Signell, Karl L. The Turkish "makam" system in contemporary theory and practice. XXX, Ph.D., 1973.
• Skinner. Myles. Toward a Quarter-Tone Syntax: Selected Analyses of Works by Blackwood, Hába, Ives, and Wyschnegradsky. Buffalo University, Ph.D., 2006.
• Smith, Charles Samuel. Leonhard Euler's Tentamen Novae Theoriae Musicae: A Translation and Commentary. Indiana University, Ph.D., 1960.
• Telese, Marciano. Spectral tuning and its application to instrumental and vocal composition. Thesis, 2005.
• Werntz, Julia Catherine. Toward an understanding of expanded equal temperament (Joseph Maneri). Brandeis University, Ph.D., 2000.
• Whaley, David Robert. The Microtonal Capability of the Horn. D.M.A. thesis, University of Illinois, 1975, 154 pages. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor MI, 1975.
• Yarman, Ozan. 79-Tone Tuning & Theory for Turkish Maqam Music. Istanbul Technical University, Ph.D., 2008.

Books

• Barbieri, Patrizio. Tuning and temperament: practice vs science – 1450-2020. 2023
• Barbour, James Murray. Tuning and Temperament: A Historical Survey. 1951.
• Barker, Andrew. Scientific Method in Ptolemy's Harmonics. 2001.
• Barker, Andrew. The Science of Harmonics in Classical Greece. 2007.
• Benson, Dave. Music: a Mathematical Offering. Cambridge University Press, Nov 2006
• Blackwood, Easley. The Structure of Recognizable Diatonic Tunings. Princeton : Princeton University Press Jackson. 1985.
• Bosanquet, R. H. M. An elementary treatise on musical intervals. 1876.
• Catler, Jon. The Nature of Music. New York: FreeNote Music, 2003.
• Chalmers, John H. Divisions of the Tetrachord. 1993.
• Duffin, Ross. How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care). 2007
• Forster, Cris. Musical Mathematics: On the Art and Science of Acoustic Instruments. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2010.
• Gann, Kyle. The Arithmetic of Listening: Tuning Theory and History for the Impractical Musician. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, [2019].
• Giedraitis, Kite. Alternative Tunings: Theory, Notation and Practice. (work in progress).
• Hába, Alois. New Theory of Harmony (translated by Suzette Mary Battan). 1927.
• Helmholtz, Hermann von. On the Sensations of Tone. 1862.
• Isacoff, Stuart. Temperament: How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization. 2003
• Johnston, Ben and Bob Gilmore, ed. Maximum clarity and other writings on music. Urbana; Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2006.
• Jedrzejewski, Franck. Mathematical Theory of Music. 2006.
• Lindley, Mark. Lutes, viols and temperaments. Cambridge University Press, 1984.
• Mathieu, W. A. Harmonic Experience: Tonal Harmony from Its Natural Origins to Its Modern Expression.. Rochester: Inner Traditions, 2014.
• Müller, Nora-Louise. The Bohlen-Pierce Clarinet: Theoretical Aspects and Contemporary Applications. Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2020.
• Narushima, Terumi. Microtonality and the Tuning Systems of Erv Wilson. 2018.
• Partch, Harry. Genesis of a Music. 1949.
• Pierce, John R. The Science of Musical Sound. New York: Scientific American Library, 1983.
• Reinhard, Johnny. 8th Octave Overtone Tuning and Bassoon Fingerings in 128. New York: American Festival of Microtonal Music, [2016].
• Sethares, William. Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale. 1998.
• Taylor, Cam. Microtonality in 55 Keys. Self-published, 2020.

See also

• Music Cognition Literature
• Microtonal blogs
• WebCite citations
• Historical archive
• Gallery of Personal Viewpoints
• Practice

External links

• A bibliography on musical tunings and temperaments, compiled by John S. Allen
• Tuning & temperament bibliography on the Huygens-Fokker Foundation website
• The r/GlobalMusicTheory Wiki, a resource about world musical traditions