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Re: [tuning] Digest Number 2149

🔗Joel Rodrigues <joelrodrigues@mac.com>

7/15/2002 7:47:24 PM

On Saturday, July 13, 2002, at 03:30 , tuning@yahoogroups.com wrote:

> Afmmjr@aol.com
>>
>> When and where was the term that has come to be called 'Just
>> Intonation' coined, what was the original term, and in what
>> language was it in ?
>
> I believe it was tracked to Thomas Morely in Renaissance > England contained in
> his monograph on good singing.

Thanks for the tip, Johnny. I suspect this the same guy as 'Thomas Morley' ? Is the work, 'A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke (1597)' ? Can anyone shed any more light ? I haven't been able to find the text on-line, which I thought I might.

- Joel