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.
The articles contain no direct bibliographic
references, but make numerous references to specialized Wikipedia
articles. These references open new tabs of your browser.
An attempt to
reconcile and unify the various tuning systems of the twelve-tone
chromatic scale of our Western music
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A questioning
of the rigorousness in musical notation and score writing
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A few fancy
considerations on the various clefs for use with bowed instruments
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This article
analyzes rhythms and
their relationships with the natural accentuation of certain notes
according to note positions on strong or weak beats.
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This
article analyzes
the musical elements that determine both the tonality and
the mode in Western classical music.
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