Sentence examples for system of tuning from inspiring English sources

"Well-Tempered" is a system of tuning.

The British keyboardist Richard Egarr, who recently played the Goldbergs at the Frick Collection and has recorded them for Harmonia Mundi, presents the music as Bach might have experienced it, on a harpsichord that has been adjusted to match recent scholarly speculation about the composer's preferred system of tuning.

Bach, first of all, is offering promotional material for a system of tuning favored by him and not far from the equal temperament we use today.

Galilei engaged in heated attacks on his former teacher Zarlino, particularly on his system of tuning, and published several diatribes against him.

Adams wrote the piece partly in tribute to the late Lou Harrison, who long preached the virtues of what is called "just intonation" — a system of tuning that retains the perfect integer ratios first measured by Pythagoras.

Bach thought of "The Well-Tempered Clavier" as a kind of treatise, the ultimate demonstration of the workings of counterpoint, as well as an exploration, almost a manifesto, on behalf of a system of tuning that made it possible to explore the chromatic nooks and crannies of all the major and minor keys.

Comma, in music, slight difference in frequency (and therefore pitch) occurring when a note of a scale, say E in the scale of C, is derived according to different systems of tuning.

"Fusion" was the buzzword for Thursday's concert: composers like Chen Yi, Toru Takemitsu and Dorothy Chang transliterating Chinese and Japanese culture into a Western alphabet; Westerners like Gerald Levinson and Percy Grainger trying to find equivalents for the resonance of the gamelan orchestra and systems of tuning a world away from theirs.

By means of tuning system parameters, numerical simulation shows that PSR method can effectively recover the spatial signal interfered by Gaussian noise.

On the other hand, it is a deeply personal work, whose material reflects Adams's long-standing preoccupation with multiple systems of tuning, his fascination with slow-motion formal processes, his love of foggy masses of sound in which many events are unfolding at independent tempos.

But, significantly, he talks of "tuning" the system, not changing it.