Temperament: How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization by Stuart Isacoff

Temperament: How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization

Stuart Isacoff

288 pages 2001

4 editions

nonfiction history music science informative medium-paced
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Few music lovers realize that the arrangement of notes on today’s pianos was once regarded as a crime against God and nature, or that such legendary thinkers as Pythagoras, Plato, da Vinci, Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Newton and Rousseau played a ...

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