Diatonicism or Individual Temperament (The Problems of Tuning the Harp)

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Nadezhda N. Pokrovskaya

Abstract

The author of the article presents her discourse on the problems of tuning the harp connected with its diatonic scale and the demands of temperament when it is played in the orchestra. Analysis is given to tuning schemes and checkups of the purity of temperament used in the Schools and Methods of the 18th-19th centuries. The author touches upon the psychological and the technical causes for complicating the tuning of the harp.

Keywords: harp, temperament, schemes of tuning the harp

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How to Cite
Pokrovskaya, N. N. (2012). Diatonicism or Individual Temperament (The Problems of Tuning the Harp). Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, 11(2), 80–83. Retrieved from https://musicscholar.ru/index.php/PMN/article/view/358
Section
Musical Performance and Pedagogy
Author Biography

Nadezhda N. Pokrovskaya, Graduated from Novosibirsk state Conservatory named after M. I. Glinka.

Doctor of Arts and an acting professor