Joseph Monzo: essays on musical tuning and scale theory
[Joseph Monzo]
(This is a list of my writings on music-theory and music history. See Joseph Monzo: List of Works
for the list of musical compositions.)
Articles and essays
- Analysis of frequencies in Stockhausen's "Studie II", actual and implied (2020)
- Analysis and Tonescape video of Ben Johnston: Quartet 9, 2nd movement (2013)
- Petr Pařízek's 11-limit temperament (2008)
- John Coltrane: Giant Steps - chord analysis in various tunings (2007)
- Intonation of the valve trumpet (2003)
- Ramos's divisions of the monochord (2003)
- Zarlino's description of 2/7-comma meantone (2003)
- Vicentino's adaptive-JI of 1555 (2002)
- Eivind Groven's Schismatic Temperament (2002)
- An Examination of Partch's The Intruder (2002)
- Simplified sexagesimal approximation to 12edo (2002)
- Lattice Diagrams Comparing Rational Implications of Various Meantone Chains
- Ganassi's Rational Well-Temperament. www (2001)
- Mozart's Tuning: a 20-tone subset of 55-EDO. www (2001)
- An Examination of Partch's Explanation of ETs (2001)
- A Gentle Introduction to the MIDI Tuning Specification. www (2001)
- Autumn Leaves in Blackjack Tuning. www (2001)
- The Blackjack Scale. www (2001)
- A 13-tone 7...17-limit scale of Pat Pagano and David Beardsley. www (2001)
- A New Reconstruction of the Hurrian Hymn. www (2000)
- Speculations on Sumerian tuning. www (2000)
- Partch 43-tone scale, inverted Monzo lattice (2000)
- An Examination of Fox-Strangways and Partch on JI modulation. www (2000)
- The Measurement of Aristoxenus's Divisions of the Tetrachord. www (1999, 2000)
- On Fabio Colonna's Sambuca Tuning. www (1999)
- A Summary of W. S. B. Woolhouse's Essay on musical intervals. www (1999)
- Tutorial on Ancient Greek Tetrachord-theory. www (1999)
- A stretched-'octave' scale of Charles Ives. www (1999)
- Chronological List of Works of Alois Hába. www (1999)
- English translation of Hába's article Schoenberg and the further possibilities of music-development. www (1999)
- English translation of the first few chapters of Horst Weber's biography of Zemlinsky(1999)
- A Century of New Music in Vienna, a chronology of Beethoven, Mahler, Schoenberg, and the birth of atonality. www (1999)
- review of the 1999 AFMM Microthon!. Juxtaposition Ezine (1999)
- English translation of Patrice Bailhache's Music translated into Mathematics: Leonhard Euler
- Historical Arab Lute Frettings. www (1999, expanded 2004)
- On the Poole just-intonation keyboard. www (1999)
- Diagrams of Equal-Tempered Guitar Fingerboards. www (1998)
- 5-Limit Implications of Ancient Indian Tuning. www (1998)
- A Microtonal Analysis of Robert Johnson's Drunken Hearted Man. www (1998)
- On John Dowland's Lute Fretting. www (1998)
- review of The Last Laugh, by Dean Drummond. Juxtaposition Ezine (1998)
- review of When Mozart was a Nine-Year-Old, by the SoHo Baroque Opera. Juxtaposition Ezine(1998)
- Joseph Monzo's Harmonic Lattice Diagrams. www (1998)
- Speculations on Marchetto of Padua's "Fifth-Tones". www (1997-98)
- JustMusic Prime-Factor Notation. www (1997)
- An Examination of a Possible 5-Limit System of Boethius. unpublished (1997)
- A New Look at the Musica Enchiriadis. unpublished (1996-97)
- A Metrical Analysis and Re-notation of Webern's Variations for Piano, 1st movement. (1994) www (1998)
- Similarities Between Partch and Schoenberg as Originators of New Harmonic Principles. unpublished (1988)
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