Eduardo Conde Garcia Jr é Bacharel em Música pela UNICAMP, Mestre pela Hartt School of Music (EUA) e Doutor pela University of Arizona (EUA). Professor do Departamento de Música da Universidade Federal de Sergipe, atua nas áreas de performance, pedagogia do piano e afinação. Desenvolveu cinco sistemas de afinação inspirados na Via Láctea e estudos sobre temperamentos musicais.
Throughout the history of music, tuning systems in the Western tradition can be grouped into four main categories: Pythagorean tuning, meantone temperaments, well temperaments, and equal temperament. All of them involve different forms of redistribution of the Pythagorean and/or syntonic commas. This study proposes five new tuning systems inspired by the structure of the Milky Way (Norma-Cygnus, Scutum-Crux, Carina-Sagittarius, Orion, and Perseus), situated within the category of well temperaments. The methodology adopted an empirical-theoretical approach, combining piano tuning practice, analysis of intervallic deviations, and mathematical modeling through a calculator designed for graphical representation of comma distribution. As a result, five well-tempered systems with distinct intervallic configurations were obtained, expanding the range of models available for theoretical investigation of temperaments and for contemporary piano tuning practice.
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