Monday 17 October 2011, 10.00 – 18.00

 

Senate House, Macmillan Hall

 

 

Convenor: Dan Tidhar

 

 

 

This is an interdisciplinary study day, bringing together musicologists, harpsichord specialists, and digital music specialists, with the aim of exploring the different angles these fields provide on the subject, and how these can be fruitfully interconnected.

 

We offer an optional introduction to temperament for non specialists, to equip all potential listeners with the basic concepts and terminology used throughout the day.

 

 

Programme

 

10.00 – 10.30      Introduction to Temperament for non-specialists (Dan Tidhar)

 

10.30 – 11.00      Registration and Tea/coffee

 

11.00 – 11.15      Introduction to the Temperament Study Day (Dan Tidhar)

 

11.15 – 12.00      Taming Artistic Temperaments (Mimi Waitzman)

 

 

12.00 – 12.30      An organic approach to tuning (Edmund Pickering)

 

      

12.30 – 1.30        Lunch break

 

 

1.30 – 1.45          Recorded Evidence – some observations on Temperament in

                            CD recordings (Dan Tidhar, Francis Knights, Simon Dixon)

 

1.45 – 2.30          Panel discussion: Historical Temperaments Today

                             (moderated by Francis Knights and Dan Tidhar)

 

2.30 – 3.10          Empirical determination of tuning systems in fifteenth-century

                              keyboard music (Frauke Jurgensen, Ian Knopke)

 

3.10 – 3.50          Temperament Estimation (Simon Dixon, Dan Tidhar)

 

3.50 – 4.20          Tea/Coffee

 

4.20 – 5.00          Tarsos – a platform to explore pitch scales in non-western

                              and western music (Olmo Cornelis)

 

5.00 – 6.00           Round Table: Challenges and future directions in

                              computational tuning/temperament research