PentaMonochord Sources

__________   Primary Source   __________

Helmholtz, Hermann L.F. On the Sensations of Tone. Translated by Alexander J. Ellis. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1954.

The Second English Edition, translated, thoroughly revised and corrected, conforming to the Fourth (and last) German Edition of 1877, with numerous additional notes and a new additional appendix bringing down information to 1885.

__________   Selected Sources   __________

Babb, Warren and Claude V. Palisca. Hucbald, Guido, and John on Music: Three Medieval Treatises.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978.

Buehler-McWilliams, Kathryn and Russell E. Murray Jr. “The Monochord in the Medieval and Modern Classrooms.” Journal of Music History Pedagogy 3, no. 2 (2013): 151-72. https://www.ams-net.org/ojs/index.php/jmhp/article/view/81.

Doty, David B. The Just Intonation Primer: An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Just Intonation. 3rd ed. (2002). http://www.dbdoty.com/Words/Primer1.html.

Ferguson, Kitty. The Music of Pythagoras: How an Ancient Brotherhood Cracked the Code of the Universe and Lit the Path from Antiquity to Outer Space. London: Walker Books, 2008.

Landels, John G. Music in Ancient Greece and Rome. Abingdon: Routledge, 2002.

Lemons, Don S. Drawing Physics: 2,600 Years of Discovery From Thales to Higgs. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017.

LLoyd, Ll. S. “Seventeenth-Century English Research in Acoustics.” The Musical Times 84, no. 1199 (Jan. 1943): 29. https://www.jstor.org/stable/922191.

M., Jesse. “Identifying and Singing Intervals Using a Monochord and Interval Ratios” Jesse M., August 15, 2019. YouTube video, 6:05. https://youtu.be/cinh6bfQac4  

Mathieu, W. A. Harmonic Experience: Tonal Harmony from its Natural Origins to its Modern Expression. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions International, 1997.

Taruskin, Richard. Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century: The Oxford History of Western Music. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Taub, Liba. “Reviewed Work: The Monochord in Ancient Greek Harmonic Science by David Creese.” The British Journal for the History of Science 44, no. 2 (June 2011): 282-83. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41241656.

Sassmannshaus, Kurt. “Intonation: Which System to Use When.” Violinmasterclass, March 14, 2012. YouTube video, 4:13.  https://youtu.be/QaYOwIIvgHg