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Title: Glen Coleman
Review: I cannot give this book enough praise. In an engrossing 230 pages, I was both time traveler and world traveler as I discovered the forces that gave birth to the piano and chromatic scale. It's a marvel that the musical scale, which we now take for granted, came to represent the heart of conflict between science and religion in Europe. By reading Temperment, I saw Pythagorus, Galileo, and Newton struggle over the mathematics of creating the 12 tone musical scale; I saw composers martyred at the hands of tyrannical churches and governments; I saw churches and governments fail in their effort to quell the music within inspired souls; and in their understanding of music, I saw unknown lovers of music triumph where towers of intellect - i.e. Descartes - fell.In Temperment, history, music, science, art, and religion collide, resulting in the birth of the piano. Take the journey with Isacoff. You will not be disappointed.
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