The Arithmetic of Listening
by Kyle Gann · first published 2019
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The best current resource is the Kyle Gann book, "The Arithmetic of Listening". It's fantastic, by a world authority on the topic. https://www.kylegann.com/Gannbooks.html Also for anyone interested in just intonation based microtonality, I did a video demo of a tool I made using…
on “Resources for microtonal music” ↗Kyle Gann's Arithmetic of Listening goes deeply into this. Given an infinite number of ways of dividing the range from f to 2f, some other equal-division temperaments (31 or 53, for example) get closer than 12TET to maintaining low-integer…
on “Why can't you tune your guitar?” ↗