Theory & Practice Of Violin Temperament

Music Temperament has a very long history and as earlier as Warring States in ancient China, the temperament of music was regarded as identical inside as the calendar, it has always been attached importance and undertaken particular study & computing. With the development of science & technology, as well as the improvement of the instruments manufacturing technique, temperament is not only a kind of numeral calculation, but also has a closer relation with music performance, and has become its theory foundation. As the mother of western music instruments, violin is for all the time a fascinated one in the history of humans and the art, so the emphases of this article is what' s the function of temperament theory in the violin performance as well as how it directs the performance.The whole article consists of three chapters. In the first chapter, it gives a basic explanation of violin development and its makeup. There is introduction & comparison to the three temperament-systems and a brief introduction to the theory of equal temperament (compound-frequency & elasticity equal temperament) in the second chapter. The third is the main body of the article, it can help us to understand theoretically how to perform the tone well and in tune with people's hearing taste by analyzing the temperament system in the performance staff. In this article, it gives you a practical performance direction using the "three-temperament" including "elasticity temperament". Although we can't make it absolutely precise in the performance, we can not only be aware of whether it should be high-pitched or low-pitched, but also have the particular theoretical reference through the reasonable analyses theoretically. What's more, I'd like to let every musician and music enthusiast know that Temperament is not similar with arithmetic research, it can give us direction and help in our performance, united closely with music aesthetic feeling, and meanwhile it will help us to create perfect music and excellent performance.