5/13/2023 0 Comments Temperament by Stuart Isacoff![]() ![]() "Any plan that describes the adjustments to the sizes of some or all of the twelve fifth intervals in the circle of fifths so that they accommodate pure octaves and produce certain sizes of major thirds is called a temperament." Temperament is especially important for keyboard instruments, which typically allow a player to play only the pitches assigned to the various keys, and lack any way to alter pitch of a note in performance. Tempering is the process of altering the size of an interval by making it narrower or wider than pure. Most modern Western musical instruments are tuned in the equal temperament system. ![]() In musical tuning, a temperament is a tuning system that slightly compromises the pure intervals of just intonation to meet other requirements. Comparison of notes derived from, or near, twelve perfect fifths (B ♯). ![]()
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