Jean-Pierre Vial, a French composer

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This page lists Jean-Pierre Vial's writings in relation to classical music and acoustics. The various articles present personal and often unusual points of view about the theoretical foundations of Western music.

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An attempt to reconcile and unify the various tuning systems of the twelve-tone chromatic scale of our Western music
A questioning of the rigorousness in musical notation and score writing
A few fancy considerations on the various clefs for use with bowed instruments
This article analyzes rhythms and their relationships with the natural accentuation of certain notes according to note positions on strong or weak beats.
This article analyzes the musical elements that determine both the tonality and the mode in Western classical music.