2 votes - Music - First release: 2010-04-14T22:14:06Z
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Well tempered is indispensable to perform baroque music. In these temperaments, Meantone was more important temperament than others, because of long term use. By using this app, you can investigate a precise numerical pitch value and sound of particular temperaments they are Pythagorean, Just Intonation, and especially Meantone etc. And you can change a key by flicking a music view, so that you will understand how each degree's pitch change in each temperament's change. How to use as follows: -How to operate a music view flick a music view left or right, changing a key. flick a music view up or down, changing a clef. -How to sound Tap a music view where you want. After that, if you tap same position, the sound is off. If you want to get a semitone up, select "#" from a selector above a music view. Getting a semitone down, select "b". Tapping "All Off" make all sound off at the same time. -How to select temperament Choose from a center picker. -About pitch display In a Hz display, a real frequency is displayed. In a cent display, it displays a cent value against a keynote of current key, or pitch A. You can select a cent standard. -Setting of tuning, a custom temperament Turn on info switch then moving to setting view. In Setting View, you can change a total tuning and custom temperament. Explanations of each temperaments: 1.Equal temperament All semitone is 100 cents. Most general temperament on modern music. 2.Pythagorean Wolf:Eb-G# It's based on perfect fifth pitch. Accumulation gap(wolf fifth) is placed Eb-G#. Wolf fifth means a particular fifth interval that is added Pythagorean Comma to perfect fifth. 3.Pythagorean Wolf:D-A Wolf fifth are placed D-A. In a key C, Three triad, C-E-G, F-A-C, G-B-D are almost pure. 4.Just Intonation Twelve degree's pitch aren't fixed. Each degree's pitch depends on a key. And an enharmonic pitch is different. For example, C# and Db are different pitch. 5.1/4 Syntonic Comma General Meantone temperament. Wolf fifth is placed Eb-G#. The interval of major third are pure. 6.1/5 Syntonic Comma A kind of meantone. Wolf fifth is placed Eb-G#. The interval of major third is little far from a pure interval. 7.1/6 Syntonic Comma A kind of meantone. It's common on general baroque music. Wolf fifth is placed Eb-G#. 8.1/7 Syntonic Comma A kind of meantone. Wolf fifth is placed Eb-G#. Very near to Equal temperament. 9.Werkmeister III A kind of well tempered. 10.Kirnberger(1766) A kind of well tempered. D-A is shorter by syntonic comma. 11.Kirnberger(1771) A kind of well tempered. D-A, A-E are shorter by a half of syntonic comma. 12 Kirnberger(1779) A kind of well tempered. C-G-D-A-E are same as Meantone 5th. 13 Custom You can make your own temperament. By the way, the icon of this app is a portrait of Monteverdi, a great baroque composer.