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Salinas and 1/3-comma meantone

🔗Paul H. Erlich <PErlich@Acadian-Asset.com>

7/8/1999 12:40:15 PM

from the webpage http://www.performancepractice.com/tuning.html:

"Lindley (97), 190. Zarlino (1571) contains the oldest quantitatively
coherent account of �-comma tuning (which Zarlino called "a new
temperament") plus a clear account of 1/3-comma tuning. To Salinas (1577)
�, 2/7, and 1/3-comma tuning apparently sounded equally good. "

The LIndley citation is: Mark Lindley, "Zarlino's 2/7-Comma Meantone
Temperament." Music in Performance and Society: Essays in Honor of Roland
Jackson (Warren, MI, 1997), 179-94.

Does Lindley state that Salinas thought they all sounded equally good?