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Sites which deal with tuning systems (historical and modern), just intonation, and theories of tuning, temperament, and harmelodics.

In Baroque times the primary musical "experiments" were not really in melody, rhythm, or harmony, but in instrument building and tuning systems. Likewise, today the things which separate ambient music artists such as Tricky from experimental artists such as the Deep Listening Band or Harry Partch are in the depth to which experimental artists test new tuning systems.


Just Intonation

Just Intonation is a system of tuning in which all of the intervals can be represented by ratios of whole numbers.

Magazines and E-zines

Journals, periodicals, magazines, and e-zines about music theory.

Microtonal

Usually used to describe temperaments that are not equal.

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