@ARTICLE{10.21494/ISTE.OP.2024.1233, TITLE={Musical temperament revisited. The first movement of the sonata for solo viola by Gyorgy Ligeti (1994)}, AUTHOR={Alain Baldocchi , Laurent Mazliak, }, JOURNAL={Art and Science}, VOLUME={8}, NUMBER={Issue 2}, YEAR={2024}, URL={https://openscience.fr/Musical-temperament-revisited-The-first-movement-of-the-sonata-for-solo-viola}, DOI={10.21494/ISTE.OP.2024.1233}, ISSN={2515-8767}, ABSTRACT={The question of temperament, the way in which keyboard instruments are tuned, has permeated western music for centuries. This article sets out the main aspects of this question and presents the highly original way in which the composer Ligeti has exploited it in a contemporary composition for viola.}}