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Ep. 179 | Ross W. Duffin: Equal Temperament, Just Intonation, Early Music & Shakespeare

🎥 Recorded using Ecamm Live — my favorite all-in-one Mac app for podcasting, recording, and live streaming. 👉 Try it here (affiliate link): https://bit.ly/4osrvBk Interview Date: January 2024 In this episode of the HMA Podcast, I’m joined by the eminent scholar and performer Professor Ross W. Duffin—author of How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care) and Shakespeare’s Songbook. We begin with the big question: is equal temperament really the “default,” and what do we lose when we treat it that way? Duffin explains historical alternatives (meantone/extended meantone, just intonation), how singers and non-keyboard instruments actually tuned, why diatonic vs chromatic semitones matter, and why the title of his tuning book triggered such strong reactions. From there we zoom out to the early music movement: the lingering prejudice against early music, the conservatory mindset, the importance of treatises, rhetoric, ornamentation, and improvisation, and why historical performance can be more demanding, not less. We also explore Duffin’s “tune detective” work on Shakespeare—recovering lost layers of meaning through popular songs—and his fascinating research on “O Canada” as a musical pastiche with a surprisingly heated public reaction. Chapters