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Hoyt Stoddard Curtin (September 9, 1922 – December 3, 2000) was an American composer, music producer and the primary musical director for the Hanna-Barbera animation studio from its beginnings with The Ruff & Reddy Show from 1957-1965 and again from 1972–1986 until his retirement in 1989.
12 tone equal temperament chromatic scale on C, one full octave ascending, notated only with sharps. Play ascending and descending ⓘ. An equal temperament is a musical temperament or tuning system that approximates just intervals by dividing an octave (or other interval) into steps such that the ratio of the frequencies of any adjacent pair of notes is the same.
The name "meantone temperament" derives from the fact that in all such temperaments the size of the whole tone, within the diatonic scale, is somewhere between the major and minor tones (9:8 and 10:9 respectively) of just intonation, which differ from each other by a syntonic comma.
The pitches of open strings on a violin. Play ⓘ. In music, the term open string refers to the fundamental note of the unstopped, full string.. The strings of a guitar are normally tuned to fourths (excepting the G and B strings in standard tuning, which are tuned to a third), as are the strings of the bass guitar and double bass.
Cover of Orgelprobe (1681). As used in the 17th century, the term "well tempered" meant that the twelve notes per octave of the standard keyboard were tuned in such a way that it was possible to play music in all major or minor keys that were commonly in use, without sounding perceptibly out of tune.
It was employed by Bill Evans in the "'amen' response figure" [1] to the head of the Miles Davis tune "So What". For example, an "E minor" So What chord is an Em 11 voicing,: [ 2 ] Audio playback is not supported in your browser.
Some players tune the third course to unison G 3 's to minimize breakage of the high G string. Guitar, baritone: 6 strings 6 courses. Common tunings: 4th lower: B 1 E 2 A 2 D 3 F ♯ 3 B 3; 5th lower: A 1 D 2 G 2 C 3 E 3 A 3; Octave lower: E 1 A 1 D 2 G 2 B 2 E 3; US
There is a wide spread of tune types - FARNE lists 53 9/8 jigs, 192 6/8 jigs, 251 reels, 20 triple-time hornpipes, 32 common-time hornpipes, and 17 cotillons. The collection includes many tunes not known elsewhere, while many tunes still current today make their first known appearance in it, including ' The College Hornpipe ', 'The Irish ...