1. A PPORTAL TO THE AST.
- Author
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Shute, Benjamin
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ART literature , *PERFORMANCE practice (Music performance) , *CONSONANCE (Music theory) - Abstract
The article presents the discussion on Francesco Geminiani's scale exercise in the 1751 treatise "The Art of Playing on the Violin." Topics include concerned with technique building rather than historical performance practices; and assume rhe modern norm of twelve equal and equally spaced semitones, and thus twelve equal major-minor key pairings yieldeing out-of-tune consonances.
- Published
- 2024