New book on temperament mentioned by my favorite economist

See Marginal Revolution
<http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2007/08/he-didnt-e\
ven-m.html> for the details. They point to the Amazon page for:

How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care)
<http://www.amazon.com/Equal-Temperament-Ruined-Harmony-Should/dp/039306\
2279/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-5524518-4871206?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1187389238&\
sr=8-1/marginalrevol-20> , by Ross W. Duffin, is a cranky but
fascinating look at how music went astray:

For nearly a century, equal temperament—the practice of dividing an
octave into twelve equally proportioned half-steps—has held a
virtual monopoly on the way in which instruments are tuned and played.
In his new book, Duffin explains how we came to rely exclusively on
equal temperament by charting the fascinating evolution of tuning
through the ages. Along the way, he challenges the widely held belief
that equal temperament is a perfect, "naturally selected" musical
system, and proposes a radical reevaluation of how we play and hear
music.

Prent Rodgers

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hasn't this ground been covered enough?

Prent Rodgers wrote:
>
> See Marginal Revolution
> <http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2007/08/he-didnt-e\
> ven-m.html > <http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2007/08/he-didnt-even-m.html>> > for the details. They point to the Amazon page for:
>
> How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care)
> <http://www.amazon.com/Equal-Temperament-Ruined-Harmony-Should/dp/039306\
> 2279/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-5524518-4871206?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1187389238&\
> sr=8-1/marginalrevol-20 > <http://www.amazon.com/Equal-Temperament-Ruined-Harmony-Should/dp/0393062279/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-5524518-4871206?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1187389238&sr=8-1/marginalrevol-20>> > , by Ross W. Duffin, is a cranky but
> fascinating look at how music went astray:
>
> For nearly a century, equal temperament�the practice of dividing an
> octave into twelve equally proportioned half-steps�has held a
> virtual monopoly on the way in which instruments are tuned and played.
> In his new book, Duffin explains how we came to rely exclusively on
> equal temperament by charting the fascinating evolution of tuning
> through the ages. Along the way, he challenges the widely held belief
> that equal temperament is a perfect, "naturally selected" musical
> system, and proposes a radical reevaluation of how we play and hear
> music.
>
> Prent Rodgers
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
> -- Kraig Grady
North American Embassy of Anaphoria Island <http://anaphoria.com/index.html>
The Wandering Medicine Show
KXLU <http://www.kxlu.com/main/index.asp> 88.9 FM Wed 8-9 pm Los Angeles

Hiya Prent,

At 10:16 AM 8/18/2007, you wrote:
>See Marginal Revolution
><http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2007/08/he-didnt-even-m.html> for the details. They point to the Amazon page for:

What's the reason to wrap links in angle brackets? And it looks
like some newline chars ("/") got put in there as well (removed above).

>How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care)
><http://www.amazon.com/Equal-Temperament-Ruined-Harmony-Should/dp/039306\
>2279/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-5524518-4871206?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1187389238&\
>sr=8-1/marginalrevol-20>

With Amazon, you can trim everything after the number after "dp"...

http://www.amazon.com/Equal-Temperament-Ruined-Harmony-Should/dp/0393062279

unless you want to send us information about what links you followed
to Amazon and potentially what else you've been shopping for.

-Carl

Kyle also mentioned this a while ago:

http://www.artsjournal.com/postclassic/2007/01/the_tuning_tide_turns.h
tml

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Prent Rodgers"
<prentrodgers@...> wrote:
>
> See Marginal Revolution
> <http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2007/08/he-
didnt-e\
> ven-m.html> for the details. They point to the Amazon page for:
>
> How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care)
> <http://www.amazon.com/Equal-Temperament-Ruined-Harmony-
Should/dp/039306\
> 2279/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-5524518-4871206?
ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1187389238&\
> sr=8-1/marginalrevol-20> , by Ross W. Duffin, is a cranky but
> fascinating look at how music went astray:
>
> For nearly a century, equal temperament—the practice of dividing an
> octave into twelve equally proportioned half-steps—has held a
> virtual monopoly on the way in which instruments are tuned and
played.
> In his new book, Duffin explains how we came to rely exclusively on
> equal temperament by charting the fascinating evolution of tuning
> through the ages. Along the way, he challenges the widely held
belief
> that equal temperament is a perfect, "naturally selected" musical
> system, and proposes a radical reevaluation of how we play and hear
> music.
>
> Prent Rodgers
>
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Carl Lumma <ekin@...> wrote:
>
> Hiya Prent,
>
>
> What's the reason to wrap links in angle brackets? And it looks
> like some newline chars ("/") got put in there as well (removed above).
>
>> -Carl
>

I used the Rich-Text Editor (Beta) option on the Yahoo page to handle
the link for me. It works, just looks a little ugly in some mail readers.

Prent