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equal temperament

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equal temperament: see tuning systems tuning systems, methods for assigning pitches to the twelve Western pitch names that constitute the octave. The term usually refers to this procedure in the tuning of keyboard instruments.
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A system for dividing the musical interval of the octave into 12 parts or half steps, equal temperament is one of a number of Western tuning systems that grew out of the sonic rules and ratios discovered by the Greek philosopher Pythagoras.
It might happen to prick up your ears from a purely avant-garde perspective, but it still doesn't add anything new to our understanding of Bach's lessons in well-temperament as a technological, namely reproducible way forward in musicking (and which incidentally was itself eventually supplanted by the modern system of true equal temperament, which is also what makes playing Das wohltemperierte Klavier on the piano such an ironic exercise to begin with).
How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony: And Why You Should Care, by Ross.
 
 
 
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