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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The Ohio State University Libraries
2021-06-01
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| Series: | Empirical Musicology Review |
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| Online Access: | https://emusicology.org/article/view/7647 |