Isaac Newton's Microtonal Approach to Just Intonation

In 1665 Isaac Newton wrote a notebook in which he collected materials for a musical treatise which was never completed. He investigated ways of approximately representing just intonation scales by dividing the octave into many equally sized intervals. Strictly speaking, equal divisions of the octave...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Daniel Muzzulini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Ohio State University Libraries 2021-06-01
Series:Empirical Musicology Review
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Online Access:https://emusicology.org/article/view/7647