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===Annapolis:===
Named so because its relative dominant represents a sharp [[8/5]]

===Calenda:===
Meaning: It is the Latin name of the first day of a month. This represents the [[15/7]] [[period]], which is a candidate for the least [[Complexity|complex]] minor ninth.

==='''Contrapyth:'''===
Meaning: Its period makes its categories run competely against i.e. "contra" any [[Pythagorean]] notion of [[concordance]] and discordance, hence "contrapyth"

===Corcovado:===
Meaning: It is the Portuguese word for "hunchback." This represents the period's relative fifith harmonic, which reduces to a diminished fourth (up to 458 cents) instead of a perfect one (458-538 cents).

===Esmeralda:===
This is name of the gypsy girl in the novel Notre Dame de Paris who turns out to be a French citizen's daughter at just the moment she is about be hung, hence the generator of Janeiro's relative neutral-small major third.

===Hugo:===
Victor Hugo wrote the novel Notre Dame de Paris, hence being the Janeiro temperament generated by [[19/84]] period.

==='''Italic:'''===
Origin: 2012

Named from the race of the Neapolitan people (the namesake of the 8:6:5 triad in common pratctice tonality and the most consonant 6-3 triad)

===Jamestown:===
Named from the possible period of 1607 cents (Jamestown, VA was established in 1607).

===Janeiro:===
Meaning: It is the Portuguese word for the month of January. This represents the leading "1" of the (diatonic) semitone which is generally the [[octave reduction]] of the temperament's period.

===Kilometric:===
So named because the [[comma]] called the "meter" is exactly the 1000th root of its period.

===Lampante:===
Named for the lowest grade of olive oil because the [[30/13]] period is equally weak as either a ninth or a tenth.

===Marchettus:===
Named in honor of [[Marchettus of Padua]], who suggests a cadential major tenth the size of its period in his 13th-century work on tuning theory.

==='''Middletown:'''===
Origin: "2012"

Meaning: Named so because its period dilates the mean (middle) tone temperament mapping into [[tempering out]] [[64/63]].

===Monocacy:===
Named after the Monocacy River in Frederick County, MD. Monocacy is also a play the medium minor tenth period of the temperament.

===Napoli:===
Means "Naples" in Italian, given by the fact the its relative subminor triad is the Neapolitan sixth triad.

===Notre Dame:===
Meaning: The cathedral Notre Dame de Paris is featured in a novel beginning in the month of January (the novel also contains a hunchback), and was also home to the first school of polyphony in European history; therefore the [[32/15]] period.

===Oriole:===
Because the Middletown temperament is named after Middletown, MD, Maryland's state bird gets to be the namesake of the temperament with a [[12/5]] period. (N. B. In spite of the name, the [[MOS]] for it is not limited to linear combinations of [[3L 4s]] and [[9L 4s]])

===Potomac:===
Named after the Potomac River, into which the Monocacy and the Shenandoah empty; hence its period of a neutral tenth.

===Rosada:===
The red of roses and of green of emeralds are complementary colors, hence the complementary structure to the Esmeralda scale.

===Shenandoah:===
Named after the Shenandoah River in Virginia. The initial "sh" is palatal like the "j" in "major"; as in the period of the medium major tenth.

===Victoria:===
Victoria is the feminine form of "Victor," hence being the inverse of Hugo.
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