Vincenzo Galilei, Discorco particolare, fol. 51r

Galilei - Example - Clavemusicum - Meantone - Literal

Galilei - Example - Clavemusicum - Meantone - Corrected

Galilei - Example - Clavemusicum - 12ed2

Galilei - Example - Arciorgano - Meantone - Literal

Galilei - Example - Arciorgano - Meantone - Corrected

A tuning procedure for Vicentinos Archicembalo (designed in 1555, rebuilt in 1974 by Tiella & Formentelli), performed by Johannes Keller. The basic principle is the extension of a conventional meantone temperament. 

Tuning an Archicembalo

Live-Performance of Muffat's Violin sonata, using a cimbalo cromatico with 19 keys per octave as a basso continuo instrument. Performed by Eva Saladin (violin) and Johannes Keller (harpsichord), summer 2014. 

Georg Muffat: Violinsonate 1677

Extract of Michelangelo Rossi's Madrigal "Per non mi dir", simulation of an "arciorgano" according to vicentino, tuned in 1/4-comma meantone. 

Per non mi dir, 1/4-comma meantone

Extract of Michelangelo Rossi's Madrigal "Per non mi dir", simulation of an "arciorgano" according to Vicentino, tuned in his "secondo modo" based on 1/4-comma meantone. 

Per non mi dir, Vicentino's "secondo modo" based on 1/4-comma meantone

Extract of Michelangelo Rossi's Madrigal "Per non mi dir", simulation of an "arciorgano" according to vicentino, tuned in 1/3-comma meantone.

Per non mi dir, 1/3-comma meantone

Extract of Michelangelo Rossi's Madrigal "Per non mi dir", simulation of an "arciorgano" according to Vicentino, tuned in his "secondo modo", based on 1/3-comma meantone.

Per non mi dir, Vicentino's "secondo modo", based on 1/3-comma meantone

Frescobaldi's "Toccata Nona", played on a 19-tone keyboard after Descartes, in just intonation. Interpreted by Christopher Stembridge. Recorded in July 2015.

Frescobaldi: Toccata Nona

29 progressions based on the step c♯ – d♭ in the bass. Progressions developed by Caspar Johannes Walter, early 2016. Recorded on the Fokker organ (Muziekgebouw Amsterdam, http://www.huygens-fokker.org/instruments/fokkerorgan.html) in June 2016, played by Johannes Keller. 

Tonality Flux, 29 progressions based on a Diesis in the bass

The two enharmonic madrigals found in "L'antica musica ridotta alla prattica moderna" (Rome 1555), played on a reconstruction of Vicentino's Archicembalo, built by Marco Tiella and Formentelli in 1974. Live performance by Johannes Keller. 

Musica Prisca Caput

Madonna Il Poco Dolce

Sound examples from Vicentinos treatise "L'antica musica ridotta alla prattica moderna", "Libro primo della prattica musicale", capitolo V, f.11r-13v. 
Performed on the Studio31 Arciorgano by Johannes Keller.

f12r

f11v

Organ performance of the two enharmonic example pieces by Nicola Vicentino, published in his treatise "L'antica musica ridotta alla prattica moderna", Rome 1555. Performed on the Studio31 Arciorgano by Johannes Keller.

Studio31

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