Historical temperaments

Not to be confused with Subgroup temperaments#Historical.

Historical temperaments are temperaments which saw use during historical times and places. The term is most commonly used to refer to tunings from medieval, early modern or industrial-age Europe.

Examples

Examples include:

• Pythagorean tuning

• Meantone
  • 1/2 comma (Fogliano 1529)
  • 19edo (Costeley 1558)
  • 1/3 comma (Salinas 1577)
  • Lucy (Harrison 1775)
  • 2/7 comma (Zarlino 1558)
  • 5/18 comma (Smith 1749)
  • 50edo (Henfling 1710)
  • 7/26 comma (Woolhouse 1835)
  • Golden (Kornerup 1930)
  • 1/4 comma (Schlick 1511 & Aron 1523)
  • 31edo (Vicentino 1555)
  • 2/9 comma (Rossi 1666 & Drobisch 1855)
  • 74edo (Riccati 1762)
  • 3/14 comma (Riccati 1762)
  • 1/5 comma (Verheyen c. 1600 & Sauveur 1701)
  • 43edo (Sauveur 1701)
  • 55edo (Beer <1722)
  • 1/6 comma (Silbermann <1748)
  • 4/25 comma (Marsh 1809)
  • 1/7 comma (Romieu 1758)
  • 12edo (Chu Tsai-yü 1596)

• Well temperament
  • Kellner
  • Kirnberger
    • Kirnberger I
    • Kirnberger II
    • Kirnberger III
  • Neidhart
    • Hof (court)
    • Grosse stadt (large town)
    • Kleine stadt (small town)
    • Dorf (village)
  • Temperament ordinaire
  • Vallotti
  • Werckmeister
    • Werckmeister I
    • Werckmeister II
    • Werckmeister III
    • Werckmeister IV (Orgelprobe)
    • Werckmeister V
    • Werckmeister VI (Septenarius)
  • Young
    • Young I (see Vallotti)
    • Young II

See also

• Georgian musical tradition
  • Kartvelian scale
  • Kartvelian scales
• List of approaches to musical tuning
• People
• Pre-Columbian South American musical traditions
• Seigneur Dieu ta pitié (historical composition in 19edo)
• Temperament extradordinaire (modern temperament inspired by the historical Temperament ordinaire)
  • Tempered: Qcmte84a
  • Just: Secor5_23TX
• Tetrachord

External links

• A Clear and Practical Introduction to Temperament History Parts 1-9 (Fred Sturm)
• Bach-Style Keyboard Tuning (Lindley & Ortgies 2006)
• Harpsichords Wiki - Tuning
• rollingball.com Historical Temperaments Visualised (PDF version)