Stainer, Sir John

Sir JOHN STAINERSTAINER, JOHNJOHN STAINER [* 1840-† 1901] The organist and Oxford professor Sir John Stainer was strongly influenced by OUSELEY, though he attempted, in his Theory of Harmony (1871), to dispense with much of the acoustical speculation that had befogged British theory during the mid-nineteenth century. His advocacy of a tempered scale was an attempt at redirecting speculation along more practical lines, yet his fascination with thirds (and their capacity for stacking into…