Remarques sur le tempérament en musique

Year of Conception:    ?
Year of Writing:             Aug. and Oct. 1774
Year of Publication:     1774/1776

Subject:
Theory of Music
Publication:
Remarques sur le tempérament en musique. Nouveaux Mémoires de l'Académie royale des sciences de Berlin, année 1774/1776, 55-73.(1)

Description:

Lambert calculates tones as ratios of integer numbers (combinations of powers of 2, 3 and 5) that are subjectively indistinguishable from the real ratios (that are irrational).

Reviews: ADB 1778, 23(6) ; GGA 1778, 614(4)