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Few music lovers realize that the arrangement of notes on

today’s pianos was once regarded as a crime against God and nature,

or that such legendary thinkers as Pythagoras, Plato, da Vinci,

Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Newton and Rousseau played a role in

the controversy. Indeed, from the time of the Ancient Greeks

through the eras of Renaissance scientists and Enlightenment

philosophers, the relationship between the notes of the musical

scale was seen as a key to the very nature of the universe.

In this engaging and accessible account, Stuart Isacoff leads us

through the battles over that scale, placing them in the context of

quarrels in the worlds of art, philosophy, religion, politics and

science. The contentious adoption of the modern tuning system known

as equal temperament called into question beliefs that had

lasted nearly two millenia–and also made possible the music of

Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Debussy, and all who followed. Filled

with original insights, fascinating anecdotes, and portraits of

some of the greatest geniuses of all time, Temperament is

that rare book that will delight the novice and expert alike.

Prelude 

Newton's Desires 

In the Realm of the Gods 

So Many Bells 

The Search for La: A Musical Puzzle 

Frozen Music 

The Harmony of Heaven and Earth 

A Keyboard Perspective 

Euclid's Gift 

The Mchemy of Sound 

A Short Trip to China 

The Scientists Confer 

Liberty, Equality, Adversity 

Coda 

Afterword 

Acknowledgments 

Bibliography 

Index 

Stuart Isacoff, a recipient of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for

excellence in writing about music, is a pianist, lecturer,

composer, and the creator and editor in chief of the country’s

largest-circulation classical piano magazine, Piano Today.

He has contributed to The New Grove Dictionary of American

Music and has written for the New York Times.

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Few music lovers realize that the arrangement of notes on today’s pianos was once regarded as a crime against God and nature, or that such legendary thinkers as Pythagoras, Plato, da Vinci, Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Newton and Rousseau played a role in the controversy. Indeed, from the time of the Ancient Greeks through the eras of Renaissance scientists and Enlightenment philosophers, the relationship between the notes of the musical scale was seen as a key to the very nature of the universe.

In this engaging and accessible account, Stuart Isacoff leads us through the battles over that scale, placing them in the context of quarrels in the worlds of art, philosophy, religion, politics and science. The contentious adoption of the modern tuning system known as equal temperament called into question beliefs that had lasted nearly two millenia–and also made possible the music of Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Debussy, and all who followed. Filled with original insights, fascinating anecdotes, and portraits of some of the greatest geniuses of all time, Temperament is that rare book that will delight the novice and expert alike.