ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the following question: How are people to know which tuning serves for which compositions? There are three sources of information available to practitioners and scholars to help answer this question: surviving instruments, tuning treatises, and the compositions themselves. Musicologists have not generally considered the characteristic features of compositions themselves as potentially important sources of information about the historical tuning of particular pieces. An electronic tuning instrument should be used to help tune the irregular measures, and it is a pity that some of the electronic instruments are equipped with the mathematically exact positions of meantone, Werckmeister and other temperaments. Johann Jakob Froberger continued in the experimental manner of his teacher Girolamo Frescobaldi. The French-influenced pieces are more individual and personal in style and are best played on the clavichord, which was the instrument Froberger liked best.
