Method books teaching tools

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Books

  • any Ivor Darreg in particular?
  • Neil Haverstick books (anyone use them?)
  • On the Sensations of Tone, Hermann Helmholtz
  • Joe Maneri 72-tone book (anyone?)
  • W.A. Mathieu: The Harmonic Experience (a friend of mine⁠ ⁠[who?] swears by it)
  • Partch, Genesis of a Music
  • Tools

  • Jim Alteri's JI calculator (good for tuning up)
  • Jacob Barton ThirtyOneToneSinginCamp (distance learning anyone?)
  • David Doty: Just Intonation Primer
  • Kyle Gann's Just Intonation Explained (nice website)
  • Although not a book, Carl Lumma's "Too-Condensed Tuning Math Outline" is an excellent resource for the beginner (speaking from personal experience⁠ ⁠[who?])
  • Brian McLaren Introduction to Microtonality CD, DVDs (anyone?)
  • Examples

  • Hayden Chisholm's microtonal (quarter-tone) saxophone etudes
  • Todo

    Icon-Todo.png Todo: annotate, add examples
    Make recommendations for things you have experience with.
    Icon-Todo.png Todo: improve readability, cleanup, remove manual line breaks
    Make wording more professional. Change formatting, layout and/or punctuation to make the list flow better and easier to parse.
    Icon-Todo.png Todo: discuss title
    Maybe it should be “Books, tools and examples regarding methodology”?