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  • Oct102018

    Music theory, scales and harmony: Use your iPhone for a better understanding

    Have you ever wondered why music theory talks about different moods for different scales? Or why some music sound more…

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  • Oct012018

    Komposition mit variabler Intonation / Stimmung

    Auf der interaktiv stimmbaren Orgel «DynTune» von Jan Ročnik lassen sich mit einem Pedal verschiedene Stimmungssysteme mischen: The result is…

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  • Sep232018

    Wie machen es die Blasenden am Beispiel der Trompete

    Trompeten-, Horn- und andere Blasende kennen die Probleme der Intonation. Man einigt sich zu Beginn der Aufführung auf einen Kammerton…

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  • Sep112018

    Frère Jacques in Just Intonation and Meantone

    Within our Werckmeister app, it is easy to listen and compare intonations. With a trivial melody like «Frère Jacques» you…

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  • Sep042018

    Visualized Just Intonation in the perfect third and fifth

    To hear a perfect third, the two frequencies are in the ratio of 5:4. For example a Kammerton A at…

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  • Apr192018

    Plutarch on Music

    Dem Ursprunge der menschlichen Stimme nachzuforschen, ihr Freunde, das passt nicht zu unserem jetzigen Trinkgelage, denn es ist das eine…

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  • Apr142018

    Gioseffo Zarlino Rennaissance

    31 January or 22 March 1517 – 4 February 1590 His early education was with the Franciscans, and he later joined…

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  • Nov302017

    Happy Birthday Andreas Werckmeister

    Andreas Werckmeister was born 372 years ago. «Diese Zahlen 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. und 8. sind nun ein…

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  • Oct272017

    Vowels in the human voice

    Most composers of vocal music take great care to use music to emphasize the meaning of the libretto (or text…

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  • Oct272017

    Harmonic intervals: a quest over centuries in the example of the third

    Why do we perceive some intervals as consonant with a pleasant sound and other intervals not? A music instrument does…

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