Quarter-Comma Meantone (Part 5)

John Carlos Baez

Mon Jan 01 2024

I’ve been talking about the quarter-comma meantone tuning system, which dominated western music from about 1550 to 1690. So far I’ve been drawing it using a circle of fifths, as above. This is a diagram where as we go clockwise each note is a fifth higher than the previous one.

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2024/01/01/quarter-comma-meantone-part-5/