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.)
(English translation by Monzo) (2023)
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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