Well temperament (also good temperament, circular or circulating temperament) is a type of tempered tuning described in 20th-century music theory. The term is modeled on the German word wohltemperiert. This word also appears in the title of J. S. Bach's famous composition "Das wohltemperierte Klavier", The Well-Tempered Clavier.
Welltemperament (also good temperament, circular or circulating temperament) is a type of tempered tuning described in 20th-century music theory. The...
In musical tuning, a temperament is a tuning system that slightly compromises the pure intervals of just intonation to meet other requirements. Most modern...
In psychology, temperament broadly refers to consistent individual differences in behavior that are biologically based and are relatively independent...
if and only if twelve-tone equal temperament is used; for example, they are not the same thing in meantone temperament, where the diatonic semitone is...
Meantone temperaments are musical temperaments, that is a variety of tuning systems, obtained by narrowing the fifths so that their ratio is slightly...
12 equal temperament (12-ET) is the musical system that divides the octave into 12 parts, all of which are equally tempered (equally spaced) on a logarithmic...
this, welltemperaments have no wolf intervals. Equal temperament The standard twelve-tone equal temperament is a special case of meantone temperament (extended...
An equal temperament is a musical temperament or tuning system that approximates just intervals by dividing an octave (or other interval) into steps such...
The four temperament theory is a proto-psychological theory which suggests that there are four fundamental personality types: sanguine, choleric, melancholic...
from equal temperaments and the "tempered" tunings of the early renaissance and baroque, such as Welltemperament, or Meantone temperament. Since 5-limit...
possibly by a combination of fifths and thirds of various sizes, as in welltemperament. If the scale is produced by the iteration of six perfect fifths, for...
using the standard system of tuning for Western music (12-tone equal temperament), the sequence is: C, G, D, A, E, B, F♯ (G♭), C♯ (D♭), G♯ (A♭), D♯ (E♭)...
one of Bach's principal proponents. Kirnberger's tuning systems, or welltemperaments are a way to artificially splice together two arcs on the "natural"...
The development of welltemperament allowed fixed-pitch instruments to play reasonably well in all of the keys. The famous "Well-Tempered Clavier" by...
either the irregularities of welltemperament or be constructed as a regular temperament, either some form of equal temperament or some other regular meantone...
the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: the quarter-comma meantone temperament. More broadly, it is also used to refer to similar intervals (of close...
The Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI) is an inventory for personality traits devised by Cloninger et al. It is closely related to and an outgrowth...
as different systems of tuning, such as meantone temperament, welltemperament, and equal temperament were developed. In early western polyphony, these...
22 equal temperament. He also invented a sensitive polariscope working independent of direction. WellTemperament versus Equal Temperament: Marpurg is...
as welltemperament (in which all keys are playable, as in J. S. Bach's later work The Well-Tempered Clavier) now known as Werckmeister temperament. The...
a unison. It is also called the schismic temperament, Helmholtz temperament, or quasi-Pythagorean temperament. In Pythagorean tuning all notes are tuned...
Werckmeister temperaments are the tuning systems described by Andreas Werckmeister in his writings. The tuning systems are numbered in two different ways:...
A Bach Temperament refers to the way the composer Johann Sebastian Bach tuned his harpsichords and clavichords for the interpretation, among other pieces...
interval, this led to the widespread use of welltemperaments and eventually equal temperament. Pythagorean temperament can still be heard in some parts of modern...
In music, 31 equal temperament, 31-ET, which can also be abbreviated 31-TET (31 tone ET) or 31-EDO (equal division of the octave), also known as tricesimoprimal...
dimensions used in common language to describe the human personality, temperament, and psyche. Those labels for the five factors may be remembered using...
In music, 72 equal temperament, called twelfth-tone, 72-TET, 72-EDO, or 72-ET, is the tempered scale derived by dividing the octave into twelfth-tones...