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Brian Capleton PhD MMusRCM  

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Brian Capleton PhD is a Lecturer in piano technology at the Royal National College, Hereford, UK. He is a holder of the Royal College of Music Master's Degree with Distinction, and is a winner of the Royal College of Music Charles Cudworth Prize. His research areas include music philosophy, piano tuning acoustics, musical instrument technology, early music performance practice, tunings and temperaments. His doctoral thesis is Music in reality, the relation of music, emotion and pre-Socratic myth. He has taught music and related subjects in a wide variety of schools and colleges, including Cheltenham Ladies' College.

Studied at:

  • Dartington College of Arts

  • Wolfson College, Oxford

  • The Royal College of Music

  • Trinity College of Music London

  • London College of Furniture / London Metropolitan University

 

  • Worked with leading UK groups including The Elizabethan Consort of Viols, The London Baroque Trio, and Chalemie, performing at major venues throughout the UK including London's South Bank.

  • Toured the UK 1997-98 on the Early Music Network.

 

Recordings with

  • BBC

  • Meridian Records

  • Amarilli Classical

 

Publications

Piano tuning, tuning theory and temperaments:

  • Theory and practice of piano tuning (ISBN 9780955464904; 9780955464928)

  • Piano action regulating (ISBN 9780955464911)

  • 'Piano unison tuning', Musical Instrument Technology (Journal of the Institute of Musical Instrument Technology), Vol 4 New series, 2006, 1-46.

  • 'False beats in coupled piano string unisons' Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 115, (2), February 2004, pp. 885 - 892.

  • 'Carl Friedrich Abel', a Gainsborough painting, and viol temperament - some evidence and enigmas', The Consort (The Journal of the Dolmetsch Foundation), 2003, Vol 59, pp. 51 - 74.

  • 'Piano tuning techniques and the tuning characteristics of pianos considered as an effect of inharmonicity and mode coupling', Journal of the Institute of Musical Instrument Technology, 4, 3, 1991, pp. 91-126.

 

Publications

Scholarly performing editions:

  • Carl Friedrich Abel - Six Sonatas for Two Violas da Gamba from The Countess of Pembroke’s Music Book, 1997 (Asclepius Editions)

  • Carl Friedrich Abel - Six Sonatas for Two Violas da Gamba from The Countess of Pembroke’s Music Book, Vol 2, 1997 (Asclepius Editions)

  • Mr Chetwoode - Four fantasias for three viols, 1997 (Asclepius Editions)

  • John Sheppard - Three motets transcribed for three viols, 1997 (Asclepius Editions)

  • (As General Editor): Joseph Fiala (1748-1816) - Sonata in G major & Concertino in D major, for Viola da Gamba, Violin, & ‘Cello, with optional harpsichord continuo. Edited and realized by Dr David J Rhodes, 1998 (Asclepius Editions)