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

An intriguing study of the development of the piano explores the eighteenth-century musical breakthrough that led to the creation of the modern piano keyboard, which offered a tuning in which each pitch is equidistant from the ones the precede and follow it, an innovation that greatly expanded the creative possibilities of classical composition. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.