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als Fundament der Theoretischen Akustik
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is a book of the danish music theoretician (music reformer and visionary) Thorvald Kornerup, written in German and published in Copenhagen in 1935.
is a book of the danish music theoretician (music reformer and visionary) Thorvald Kornerup, written in German and published in Copenhagen in 1935, that describes [[Golden Meantone]].


The system is based on the paradigm that the relation between whole and half tone intervals should be the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio|Golden Ratio]]
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[[math]]
\varphi = \frac 1 2 (\sqrt{5}+1) \approx 1.61803\,39887\ldots\,
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Thus some edo systems - the 12-step too - could be considered as approximations to this ideal.
 
== Construction ==
If you use two neighboring numbers from Fibonacci Series 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21... you get the following approximations:
1, 1 -&gt; [[7edo]]
1, 2 -&gt; [[12edo]]
2, 3 -&gt; [[19edo]]
3, 5 -&gt; [[31edo]]
5, 8 -&gt; [[50edo]]
8, 13 -&gt; [[81edo]]
13, 21 -&gt; [[131edo]]
 
== Evaluation ==
 
Graham Breed [[http://x31eq.com/meantone.htm|writes]]: //I think of this as the standard melodic meantone because the all these ratios are the same. It has the mellow sound of 1/4 comma, but does still have a character of its own. Some algorithms make this almost exactly the optimum 5-limit tuning. It's fairly good as a 7-limit tuning as well. Almost the optimum (according to me) for diminished sevenths. I toyed with this as a guitar tuning, but rejected it because 4:6:9 chords aren't quite good enough. That is, the poor fifth leads to a sludgy major ninth.//
 
== Listening ==
 
[[http://www.io.com/~hmiller/midi/canon-golden.mid|An acoustic experience]] - Kornerup himself had no chance to have it - is contained in the [[Warped canon]] collection.</pre></div>
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is a book of the danish music theoretician (music reformer and visionary) Thorvald Kornerup, written in German and published in Copenhagen in 1935.&lt;br /&gt;
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If you use two neighboring numbers from Fibonacci Series 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21... you get the following approximations:&lt;br /&gt;
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8, 13 -&amp;gt; &lt;a class="wiki_link" href="/81edo"&gt;81edo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Graham Breed &lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://x31eq.com/meantone.htm" rel="nofollow"&gt;writes&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;em&gt;I think of this as the standard melodic meantone because the all these ratios are the same. It has the mellow sound of 1/4 comma, but does still have a character of its own. Some algorithms make this almost exactly the optimum 5-limit tuning. It's fairly good as a 7-limit tuning as well. Almost the optimum (according to me) for diminished sevenths. I toyed with this as a guitar tuning, but rejected it because 4:6:9 chords aren't quite good enough. That is, the poor fifth leads to a sludgy major ninth.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.io.com/~hmiller/midi/canon-golden.mid" rel="nofollow"&gt;An acoustic experience&lt;/a&gt; - Kornerup himself had no chance to have it - is contained in the &lt;a class="wiki_link" href="/Warped%20canon"&gt;Warped canon&lt;/a&gt; collection.&lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt;</pre></div>

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is a book of the danish music theoretician (music reformer and visionary) Thorvald Kornerup, written in German and published in Copenhagen in 1935, that describes [[Golden Meantone]].

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