Look at the Grove Dictionary entry 'Zhu Zaiyu' for bibliography. Laurence ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fred Sturm" <fssturm at unm.edu> To: <caut at ptg.org> Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 2:33 PM Subject: Re: [CAUT] Music in Ancient China > > Thanks, Patrick. As it happens, I have a certain amount of familiarity > with ancient China myself, having cobbled together a major in college > I called Comparative Greek and Chinese Classical Studies. So I am well > aware of Needham's massive work, and I believe it is the original > source of the claim that the Chinese "invented equal temperament." > Murray Barbour wrote one sentence noting this: > "The first known appearance in print of the correct > figures for equal temperament was in China, where Prince Tsai- > yu's brilliant solution remains an enigma^ since the music of China > had no need for any sort of temperament." > I believe many people writing subsequently simply relied on Barbour, > and repeated this in a less precise way. From what I have gathered, it > was more a matter of mathematics than anything else, and it had to do > with ritualistic matters, something to do with creating a set of > temple bells (whether real or simply designed), tuned correctly so > that they mirrored "heaven." But that is about as far as the sources I > have read have got me. Perhaps it is far enough, as I haven't troubled > to dig deeper. > Regards, > Fred Sturm > fssturm at unm.edu > http://www.createculture.org/profile/FredSturm >
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