Audio examples for Kyle Gann's book
The Arithmetic of Listening:
Tuning Theory and History for the Impractical Musician(University of Illinois Press, 2019)
Errata at bottom of the page.
Audio examples for the book:
Chapter 2: The Harmonic Series
Errata:
Page 23, lines 5-6: 7/5 should be 582.5 cents and 10/7 should be 617.5 cents. The values given are for 45/32 and 64/45.
Page 39, first line after new subject heading: reference to "Ex. 3.1" should be "Ex. 3.2."
Page 83, lines 14-15: Apparently Orlando Gibbons does have a piece in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, though The Oxford Companion to Music, which I footnoted, states otherwise.
Page 89, Ex. 7.1: "sqeezed" should be "squeezed."
Page 104, third line from bottom: "392.4 cents and 394 cents respectively" should read "392.4 Hz and 392 Hz respectively."
Page 115, line 8 (second chart): Eb7 and Bb7 should be Eb and Bb respectively.
Page 123, line 24: Two HEJI accidentals are wrong, and we tried to fix it before publication, but the change was made incorrectly. Correct accidentals:
Apologies; full HEJI notation here
Page 140, line 6: The reference should be to Ex. 13.3, not 13.2.
Page 147, line 5: "major" and "minor" should be flipped.
Page 157, bottom: In 3/2, the exponent on 3 should be 1, not 0.
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