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Meantone temperament
Meantone temperament Meantone temperament is a system of musical tuning. In general, a meantone is constructed the same way as Pythagorean ... chain of perfect fifths, but in a meantone, each fifth is narrowed by the same ... third closer to their ideal just ratios. Meantone temperaments The term meantone temperament is ...
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Talk:Meantone temperament
Talk:Meantone temperament This is what was in the ... understand doesn't seem strictly relevant to meantone, so I'm moving it here. I ... of 64:81 (1.265625). Quarter comma meantone tunes 1:2 and 4:5 (the ... UTC) Definition and history The definition of meantone should not imply that the major 3rd ... taught according to a 1/6-comma meantone scheme in the time of Mozart. ...
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Septimal meantone temperament
Septimal meantone temperament In music, septimal meantone temperament, also called standard septimal meantone or simply septimal meantone, refers to the tempering of 7-limit musical intervals by a meantone temperament tuning in the range from ...
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Quarter-comma meantone
Quarter-comma meantone Quarter-comma meantone was the most common meantone temperament in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries ... octaves down make a major third in meantone temperament, {(3/2)^4 \over 4 ... 64}, and hence four fifths in meantone temperament make an interval of a ...
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Talk:Quarter-comma meantone
Talk:Quarter-comma meantone I'm going to incorporate what is here into meantone temperament and make this a redirect there ... when one considers that when people say "meantone temperament" they often mean quarter comma specifically ... lots to say about each system of meantone (2/7 comma, 1/3 comma, etc ... stuff about quarter-comma was cluttering up Meantone and making the stuff about meantone ...
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Talk:Septimal meantone temperament
Talk:Septimal meantone temperament If this is "septimal meantone", then what do you call the linear ... 9/7? Would that be called "reverse meantone"? —Keenan Pepper 21:48, 1 January 2006 ...
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Wolf interval
... notes within the octave are tuned using meantone temperament, one of the fifths will be ... sharper than the rest. The notes that meantone temperament was normally based around meant that ... If eleven of them have a flattened meantone value of 700-ε cents, the wolf ... if f is the size of the meantone fifths, 128/f 11 will be the ... of the wolf. In 1/4-comma meantone, the meantone fifth is of size ...
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Schismatic temperament
... unison. Analogously to the way in which meantone temperament approximates the ratio 5:1 by ... 32805/32768 is tempered to a unison. Meantone tunings are often described in terms of ... among schismatic tunings, of 1/4-comma meantone among meantone tunings, as it also has pure interval ... cent off from just intonation) than its meantone counterpart. A 1/9-schisma tuning ...
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Francisco de Salinas
... noted as among the first to describe meantone temperament in mathematically precise terms, and the ... 3-, 1/4- and 2/7-comma meantone tunings. Of 1/3-comma meantone, which is essentially identical to the meantone of 19-et, he remarks that it ... suffices to give a circulating version of meantone. Alexander Ellis maintained that Salinas really ...
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Equal temperament
... or fifths in these keys, such as meantone temperament. At the time equal temperament was ... mis-tuning of the music, relative to meantone temperament, as a disgrace. Those in opposition ... especially 31-tET are extended varieties of Meantone temperament and approximate most just intonation intervals ... little use. It doesn't fit the Meantone mold that shaped the development of Western ... use in practice and is not a meantone system is 22-tET. 55-tET, ...
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