Verify Citation - 5. Music, Temperament, and Social Concord
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“The interval CE in Pythagorean tuning gives a C that is too low, an E that is too high: hence Clotho’s and Atropos’s adjustments. Lachesis’s task is to make A♭ and G♯ coincide, adjusting one with each hand. ‘Plato saw the necessity of temperament for systems meant to function in harmony, be they musical scales, planetary orbits, or communities of just men’” (Godwin 1983: pp. 298f., quoting McClain[1] 1977: p. 55).
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- ↑ Ernest G. McClain, The Pythagorean Plato: Prelude to the Song Itself (Maine: 1978), p. 55.
