Temperament How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization

"Isacoff's book makes admirable sense of a topic that is normally broached only in turgid texts of music theory. He writes engagingly about abstract and often counterintuitive matters, and he lends his subject a bit of drama by placing it, rightly, in the context of the history of ideas. The revolution of equal temperament took place primarily in the musical arena, but Isacoff shows that the concepts that brought it about were inseparable from contemporaneous ideas about astronomy or man's place in the universe or God."Isacoff, Stuart is the author of 'Temperament How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization', published 2003 under ISBN 9780375703300 and ISBN 0375703306.