Another integral part of the early music sound-world is the musical temperament.

In 1518 he published details of a new musical temperament, which is now named after him, for the harpsichord.

His musical temperament is so intense that a few is all he can sustain."

Its major weakness, at least at first hearing, was in the tenuous ways it linked one musical temperament to the next.

Perfect fifths may be Just intonation or Musical temperament.

Mr. Zukerman's dramatic, burly musical temperament is quite different.

In musical temperament, the simple ratios of just intonation are mapped to nearby irrational approximations.

He published on musical temperament.

Ms. White's musical temperament is sunnier.

Pierre Boulez has the ideal musical temperament to blend that element of the score with its heavily written, almost cerebral aspect.

Meantone temperament is a musical temperament, which is a system of musical tuning.

A comma sequence defines a musical temperament through a unique sequence of commas at increasing prime limits.

While equal temperament became gradually accepted as the dominant musical temperament during the 18th century, different historical temperaments are often used for music from earlier periods.

An equal temperament is a musical temperament, or a system of tuning, in which every pair of adjacent notes has an identical frequency ratio.

Yet Ms. Allen's musical temperament stayed with you after the music was over: the sound of her melodies and harmonies, a gently dissonant, old-world quality.

This project later became the book (+ Multimedia CD) Musical Temperament mentioned in the Books section.

The Royal Philharmonic generally displays a thoroughly musical temperament; its strings are pliant and its winds almost liquid in their blend.

"She has the brains, ability, voice and looks," he added, "and if she develops the musical temperament to go along with it, there will be no stopping her."

The youngest son of poet Radha Madhab Dutta, Romon displayed a musical temperament from childhood.

Essay on Musical Temperament (part 2) by Prof. Fisher (Yale College)

Commas are frequently used in the description of musical temperaments, where they describe distinctions between musical intervals that are eliminated by that tuning system.

In music theory and tuning, the kleisma, or semicomma majeur, is a minute and barely perceptible comma type interval important to musical temperaments.

The pianist Glenn Gould, for example, praised Mr. Krenek's independence, his elegiac style and his "unique musical temperament."

For Milstein, whose musical temperament was as equable as Horowitz's was nervous, geographical displacement reinforced an innate patrician detachment.

Mr. Ax is widely known for performances with the cellist Yo-Yo Ma, his longtime recital partner and a man of like musical temperament.