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This is a subpage for TAMNAMS-related notes, containing various proposals of varying degrees of usefulness and other related tables.
This is a subpage for [[TAMNAMS]]-related notes, containing various proposals of varying degrees of usefulness and other useful things. This also contains rewrites of sections of the main TAMNAMS page that aren't quite ready to be deployed.
 
== Ordinal-indexed versus zero-indexed names ==
(Personal notes; may clarify later.)
 
The use of ordinal indexing for naming mos intervals and degrees is generally discouraged when referring to non-diatonic mos intervals. Ordinal indexing is reserved for describing diatonic interval categories.
 
== Sandboxed section: Naming mos modes ==
The easiest way to name the modes of a mos, without having to memorize any names, is to refer to them by their [[Modal UDP notation|UDP]], which refers to how many generators are stacked above and below the tonic to produce a mode of the mos.
 
This section's running example is 5L 3s, whose brightest mode is LLsLLsLs.
 
=== Simplified UDP notation ===
Normal UDP notation is summarized below:
* For single-period mosses, the UDP is notated as ''u''|''d'', where ''u'' is the number of bright generators stacked ''above'' the tonic, ''d'' is the number of bright generators stacked ''below'' the tonic, and "|" is pronounced as "pipe". The full name of a mos's mode is '''xL ys u|d'''.
 
* For multi-period mosses with ''p'' periods, the UDP of is notated as ''up''|''dp''(''p''). Since there are generators being stacked above and below every period - not just the tonic - there are in total ''u times p'' and ''d times p'' generators being stacked above and below their respective starting pitches. The full name in this case is '''xL ys up|dp(p)'''.
 
To make notation easier, TAMNAMS makes the following modifications to UDP notation:
 
* The UDP for the mode of a multi-period mosses may be written as ''u|d''(''p'') rather than ''up|dp''(''p''). This is because the period already appears in both the quantity of bright (''u times p'') and dark (''d times p'') generators, so omitting the ''p'' term makes the notation less redundant. In contexts where it doesn't cause confusion, the notation can be simplified further to ''u|d.''
 
* The UDP for a mode, single-period or multi-period, may be shortened to "u|" under the reasoning that omitting the ''d'' term, which can be inferred by the ''u'' term, makes the notation less redundant. For example, "5L 3s 5|", which refers to LsLLsLLs, is read as "5 ell 3 ess 5 pipe".
** The shortened notation of "u|" is sufficient in most cases, but in situations where it makes more sense to think in terms of the dark generator, such as with a mos whose dark generator is the bright generator of a related mos, the notation is instead "|d".
 
This simplified notation will be used throughout this section, unless otherwise specified. In any case, the name of a mos can be substituted for its xL ys form.
 
=== Finding mos modes ===
Rotating the sequence of steps - that is, moving the step at the beginning to the end - produces a different mode. This can be repeated until the initial mode that was started with is produced.
 
This rotation process usually returns the modes in rotational order, not by brightness. To get the modes in order by brightness, produce every interval for each mode - starting at the mosunison and ending at the mosoctave - producing an [[interval matrix]]. The brightest mode will be the mode that has all of its intervals - excluding the mosunison, mosoctave, and mosperiods if multi-period - in its large size. The 2nd-brightest mode will have one interval in its small size - for multi-period mosses, one interval is in its small size for every instance of the mosperiod - and so on. The darkest mode will have all of its intervals in its small size. A much faster way to do this process is to skip making an interval matrix and sort the modes produced by rotation in alphabetical order, effectively sorting all modes by decreasing brightness. In either case, the UDP for the modes sorted by brightness are (n-1)|0, (n-2)|1, and so on to 0|(n-1), or (n-1)|, (n-2)| to 0|. The table below shows the modes produced rotationally, and can be sorted by UDP.
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+Modes of 5L 3s, with interval sizes
!Mode
!Rotational order
!Simplified UDP
!mosunison
!1-mosstep
!2-mosstep
!3-mosstep
!4-mosstep
!5-mosstep
!6-mosstep
!7-mosstep
!mosoctave
|-
|LLsLLsLs
|0
|<nowiki>7|</nowiki>
|0 (perfect)
|L (major)
|2L (major)
|2L+s (perfect)
|3L+s (major)
|4L+s (augmented)
|4L+2s (major)
|5L+2s (major)
|5L+3s (perfect)
|-
|LsLLsLsL
|1
|<nowiki>4|</nowiki>
|0 (perfect)
|L (major)
|L+s (minor)
|2L+s (perfect)
|3L+s (major)
|3L+2s (perfect)
|4L+2s (major)
|4L+3s (minor)
|5L+3s (perfect)
|-
|sLLsLsLL
|2
|<nowiki>1|</nowiki>
|0 (perfect)
|s (minor)
|L+s (minor)
|2L+s (perfect)
|2L+2s (minor)
|3L+2s (perfect)
|3L+3s (minor)
|4L+3s (minor)
|5L+3s (perfect)
|-
|LLsLsLLs
|3
|<nowiki>6|</nowiki>
|0 (perfect)
|L (major)
|2L (major)
|2L+s (perfect)
|3L+s (major)
|3L+2s (perfect)
|4L+2s (major)
|5L+2s (major)
|5L+3s (perfect)
|-
|LsLsLLsL
|4
|<nowiki>3|</nowiki>
|0 (perfect)
|L (major)
|L+s (minor)
|2L+s (perfect)
|2L+2s (minor)
|3L+2s (perfect)
|4L+2s (major)
|4L+3s (minor)
|5L+3s (perfect)
|-
|sLsLLsLL
|5
|<nowiki>0|</nowiki>
|0 (perfect)
|s (minor)
|L+s (minor)
|L+2s (diminished)
|2L+2s (minor)
|3L+2s (perfect)
|3L+3s (minor)
|4L+3s (minor)
|5L+3s (perfect)
|-
|LsLLsLLs
|6
|<nowiki>5|</nowiki>
|0 (perfect)
|L (major)
|L+s (minor)
|2L+s (perfect)
|3L+s (major)
|3L+2s (perfect)
|4L+2s (major)
|5L+2s (major)
|5L+3s (perfect)
|-
|sLLsLLsL
|7
|<nowiki>2|</nowiki>
|0 (perfect)
|s (minor)
|L+s (minor)
|2L+s (perfect)
|2L+2s (minor)
|3L+2s (perfect)
|4L+2s (major)
|4L+3s (minor)
|5L+3s (perfect)
|}
Since multi-period mosses repeats every period rather than at every octave, the number of modes corresponds to the number of pitches in the period. As a result, multi-period mosses always have fewer modes. An example is shown for 3L 6s, with modified UDPs as described in the previous section.
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+Modes of 3L 6s, with interval sizes
!Mode
!Mode name
!Simplified UDP
!Rotational order
!mosunison
!1-mosstep
!2-mosstep
!3-mosstep
!4-mosstep
!5-mosstep
!6-mosstep
!7-mosstep
!8-mosstep
!mosoctave
|-
|LssLssLss
|<nowiki>3L 6s 2|</nowiki>
|<nowiki>2|</nowiki>
|0
|0 (perfect)
|L (augmented)
|L+s (perfect)
|L+2s (perfect)
|2L+2s (augmented)
|2L+3s (perfect)
|2L+4s (perfect)
|3L+4s (augmented)
|3L+5s (perfect)
|3L+6s (perfect)
|-
|sLssLssLs
|<nowiki>3L 6s 1|</nowiki>
|<nowiki>1|</nowiki>
|2
|0 (perfect)
|s (perfect)
|L+s (perfect)
|L+2s (perfect)
|L+3s (perfect)
|2L+3s (perfect)
|2L+4s (perfect)
|2L+5s (perfect)
|3L+5s (perfect)
|3L+6s (perfect)
|-
|ssLssLssL
|<nowiki>3L 6s 0|</nowiki>
|<nowiki>0|</nowiki>
|1
|0 (perfect)
|s (perfect)
|2s (diminished)
|L+2s (perfect)
|L+3s (perfect)
|L+4s (diminished)
|2L+4s (perfect)
|2L+5s (perfect)
|2L+6s (diminished)
|3L+6s (perfect)
|}
 
==== Alterations to a mode ====
Alterations to a mode are denoted by listing what 0-indexed mosdegrees are altered by one or more moschromas, using accidentals whose meaning and notation is made clear. As a diatonic example, mixolydian b6 can be written as 5L 2s 5| b6 (where the 6th degree is is a ordinal-indexed 6th, not a 0-indexed mosdegree), but for a non-diatonic example, mode 5| of 5L 3s with a 4-mosdegree lowered by a chroma is written as "5L 3s 5| @4d" (read as "5L 3s 5 pipe at-4-degree", where the "at/@" accidental is from [[diamond-mos notation]]).
 
=== Named mos modes ===
Many people, or groups of people, who have described individual mosses have independently came up with names for the mos's modes. The mosses listed below have named mos modes on their respective pages. (todo: add links)
 
* 5-note mosses: 4L 1s
* 7-note mosses: 1L 6s, 2L 5s, 3L 4s, 4L 3s, 5L 2s, and 6L 1s
* 8-note mosses: 3L 5s, 5L 3s, and 7L 1s
* 9-note mosses: 5L 4s and 7L 2s
* 10-note mosses: 3L 7s
 
For mossess that no such mode names but a less mathematical name is desired, [[genchain mode numbering]] may be used, producing 1st xL ys, 2nd xL ys, and so on.
 
== Sandboxed rewrite: Naming mos intervals and mos degrees ==
Already deployed on main TAMNAMS page: [[TAMNAMS#Naming mos intervals]]
 
=== Complements of intervals ===
The ''octave complement'' (or ''equave complement'' for mosses that don't have an octave equivalence interval, or simply ''complement'') of a mos interval follows the same logic as the [[octave complement]] in regular music theory: in general, for a mos with n pitches, a k-mosstep in its large form has a complement of an (n-k)-mosstep in its small form, and the two intervals are complements of one another. Alternatively, if a specific mos interval is thought of as a quantity of large and small steps, then its complement is the number of steps needed to produce the mos pattern of xL ys itself. Additionally, if a mos interval is also altered by raising it by some number of chromas, its complement will be lowered by the same number of chromas, and vice-versa.
{| class="wikitable"
|+Interval complements of 3L 4s
! colspan="2" |Interval
! colspan="2" |Complement
|-
!Name
!Size
!Name
!Size
|-
|Perfect 0-mosstep (unison)
|'''0'''
|Perfect 7-mosstep (octave)
|'''3L+4s'''
|-
|Major 1-mosstep
|'''L'''
|Minor 6-mosstep
|'''2L+4s'''
|-
|Perfect 2-mosstep
|'''L+s'''
|Diminished 5-mosstep
|'''2L+3s'''
|-
|Major 3-mosstep
|'''2L+s'''
|Minor 4-mosstep
|'''1L+3s'''
|-
|Major 4-mosstep
|'''2L+2s'''
|Minor 3-mosstep
|'''1L+2s'''
|-
|Augmented 5-mosstep
|'''3L+2s'''
|Perfect 2-mosstep
|'''2s'''
|-
|Major 6-mosstep
|'''3L+3s'''
|Minor 1-mosstep
|'''s'''
|-
|Perfect 7-mosstep (octave)
|'''3L+4s'''
|Perfect 0-mosstep (unison)
|'''0'''
|}
 
== Sandboxed rewrite: Mos pattern names ==
 
=== Reasoning for names ===
See: [[TAMNAMS#Reasoning for the names]]
 
The goal of TAMNAMS mos names is to choose memorable but aesthetically neutral names.
 
==== Names for small mosses ====
All names for single-period mosses (mosses of the form xL ys where x and y are coprime) with no more than 5 notes require that some small integer multiple of the period is equal to an octave or a tempered octave, under the reasoning that these mosses are common and broad enough that they may be of interest in non-octave contexts. As such, the names for these mosses are chosen to be extremely general to avoid bias and to avoid being too flavorful, and to allow these names to be reused for such non-octave contexts.
 
The names of monowood and biwood, for 1L 1s and 2L 2s respectively, requires that an equivalence interval be an octave, whereas the name trivial, also referring to 1L 1s, is equave-agnostic and may be used for non-octave contexts.
 
==== Names for multi-period mosses ====
Multi-period mosses (mosses of the form xL ys where x and y have a greatest common factor of 2 or greater) are given unique names that do not depend on the name of a smaller, octave-specific mos. The inclusion of such mos names was for completeness, which prompted reconsiderations on how these mosses were named. These mosses were formerly named using names that were octave-specific, producing former names such as "antidimanic" and "dipentic".
 
==== Names based on a temperament ====
All names ending in -oid refer to an exotemperament which, when including extreme tunings, covers the entire range of the corresponding octave-period mos, such that many edos with simple step ratios for that mos will correspond to valid tunings, if not by patent val, then with a small number of warts.
 
Former names like "orwelloid" and "sensoid" were abandoned because the names were too temperament-specific in the sense that even considering extreme tunings didn't cover the whole range of the mos. The remaining temperament-based names have been abstracted or altered heavily, namely "pine", "hyrulic", "jaric", "ekic" and "lemon".
 
==== Names for 1L ns mosses ====
Mosses of the form 1L ns were originally left unnamed as the range for their generator was too broad and such mosses were considered better analyzed as subsets of its (n+1)L 1s mos. An example of this is 1L 6s and 7L 1s, a pair of mosses that are commonly associated with porcupine temperament.
 
Although the tuning range is very unhelpful for knowing what such mosses will sound like, it is nonetheless useful for describing structure in situations where one does not want to use the mathematical name of 1L ns, especially given that in such situations the tuning will likely be specified somewhere already, hence the inclusion of these mos names.
 
This inclusion also affected the names of multi-period mosses. Jaric and taric specifically were chosen over bipedal and bimanual because of this, and to a lesser extent, lemon and lime were chosen over antibipentic and bipentic respectively (with their parent mos of 4L 2s named citric for consistency).
 
==== The anti- prefix vs the an- prefix for naming 1L ns mosses ====
The distinction between using the prefixes "anti-" vs "an-" for reversing the number of large vs. small steps is not as trivial as it may sound.
 
In the case of mosses with six or more notes, as the period is always an octave, there is a very large tuning range for the 1L ns mosses (hence their original omission), but the "anti-" prefix shows that what is significant is that it has the opposite structure to the corresponding nL 1s mos while pointing out the resulting ambiguity of range.
 
In the case of mosses with five or fewer notes, as the period is not known and therefore could be very small, this is not as much of a concern as fuller specification is likely required anyway, especially in the case of larger periods, so the name should not be tediously long as the name refers to a very simple mos pattern, and for related reasons, the name shouldn't give as much of a sense of one 'orientation' of the structure being more 'primary' than the other, while with mosses with more than five notes, this suggestion of sense is very much intended, because it will almost always make more sense to talk about the (n+1)L 1s child mos of whatever 1L ns mos you want to speak of.
 
==== Names for mosses with more than 10 notes ====
The scope of TAMNAMS name is to give mosses with small note count a notable name. To keep the number of names controlled, only mosses with no more than 10 notes are named. As a result, the names of mosses with 11 and 12 notes were abandoned, notably the names kleistonic, suprasmitonic, m-chromatic, and p-chromatic.


== Step ratio spectrum visualization ==
== Step ratio spectrum visualization ==
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|-
| rowspan="15" |1:1 to 1:0
| rowspan="15" |1:1 to 1:0
| rowspan="7" |1:1 to 2:1
| rowspan="7" |1:1 to 2:1 ''(general soft range)''
| rowspan="3" |1:1 to 3:2
| rowspan="3" |1:1 to 3:2
|1:1 to 4:3 (ultrasoft)
|1:1 to 4:3 (ultrasoft)
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|Also called quintessential
|Also called quintessential
|-
|-
| rowspan="7" |2:1 to 1:0
| rowspan="7" |2:1 to 1:0 ''(general hard range)''
| rowspan="3" |2:1 to 3:1 (hypohard)
| rowspan="3" |2:1 to 3:1 (hypohard)
|2:1 to 5:2 (minihard)
|2:1 to 5:2 (minihard)
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| colspan="2" |
| colspan="2" |
|'''1:1 (equalized)'''
|'''1:1 (equalized)'''
|
|Trivial/pathological
|-
|-
| rowspan="21" |1:1 to 1:0
| rowspan="21" |1:1 to 1:0
| rowspan="9" |1:1 to 2:1
| rowspan="9" |1:1 to 2:1 ''(general soft range)''
| rowspan="5" |1:1 to 3:2
| rowspan="5" |1:1 to 3:2
| rowspan="3" |1:1 to 4:3 (ultrasoft)
| rowspan="3" |1:1 to 4:3 (ultrasoft)
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|'''2:1 (basic)'''
|'''2:1 (basic)'''
|-
|-
| rowspan="11" |2:1 to 1:0
| rowspan="11" |2:1 to 1:0 ''(general hard range)''
| rowspan="3" |2:1 to 3:1 (hypohard)
| rowspan="3" |2:1 to 3:1 (hypohard)
|2:1 to 5:2 (minihard)
|2:1 to 5:2 (minihard)
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|-
| colspan="2" |
| colspan="2" |
|'''10:1 (pseudocollapsed)'''
|'''10:1 (semicollapsed)'''
|
|
|-
|-
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| colspan="2" |
| colspan="2" |
|'''1:0 (collapsed)'''
|'''1:0 (collapsed)'''
|Trivial/pathological
|}
|}


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|}


== Extended mos pattern names (greater than 10 steps) ==
== Proposal: Naming mosses with more than 10 steps (work-in-progress) ==
This is a system for describing scales beyond the set of named TAMNAMS scales. Both [[User:Frostburn]] ([[User:Frostburn/TAMNAMS Extension]]) and I have similar systems, though this is focused on naming single-period mosses up to three generations after a parent scale.
See: [[User:Ganaram inukshuk/TAMNAMS Extension]]
== Changes to mos names ==


Although naming scales beyond the current cap of 10 notes is antithetical to the purpose of TAMNAMS, a general description can still be made without establishing concrete names, while using names for already named scales. The rules are described as such:
===Which mosses are worth naming?===
Updates to TAMNAMS around 2022 have imposed a maximum step count of 10. I'm arguing there should be a minimum note count 6 for the following reasons:


* If the scale is the child of the parent scale, then the scale is '''moschromatic'''.
*Mosses with step counts less than 6 have generator ranges so broad that they encompass multiple temperaments and can be expanded to multiple mosses.
* If the scale is the grandchild of the parent scale, then the scale is '''mosenharmonic.'''
*Mosses 1L 1s, 1L 2s, and 2L 1s have extremely broad generator ranges that it may be difficult to generalize anything about them, let alone compose with them.
* If the scale is the great-grandchild of the parent scale, then the scale is '''mosschismic'''. (tentative name; [[Schismatic family|schismic]] refers to a family of temperaments; open to better name suggestions)
*The parents of most of the mosses with note counts 6-10 are mosses with 4-5 notes, so to denote these mosses, it may be better to think of these parents as subsets of those larger mosses instead. When people compose with 2L 3s, for example, they don't invent entirely new notation for that; instead, they use notation for 5L 2s and skip two of the notes.
* If the scale is more than 3 generations from the parent scale, or if referring to a scale regardless of number of generations from the parent, then the scale is a '''mosdescendent''' scale.
**1L 3s, parent of 1L 5s and 5L 1s
**3L 1s, parent of 3L 4s and 4L 3s
**1L 5s, parent of 1L 6s and 6L 1s
** 2L 3s, parent of 2L 5s and 5L 2s
**3L 2s, parent of 3L 5s and 5L 3s
**4L 1s, parent of 4L 5s and 5L 4s
*The names for these small mosses differ from the other mos names in that they're meant to be equave-agnostic. It's not that these names would go away; rather, they'd be going somewhere else. (Where is not known at the moment.)
**The mos module doesn't even include these names, apart from monowood and biwood.


For describing the scales of a named mos, the prefix of mos- is removed and replaced with the mos's prefix instead. For example, the child, grandchild, and great-grandchild scales for the mos 5L 3s (oneirotonic, prefix oneiro-) are oneirochromatic, oneiroenharmonic, and oneiroschismic respectively, and the entire family of mosses related to oneirotonic are oneirodescendents.
===Proposed style guide===
The following is a proposed guide for naming mosses, based on patterns gleamed from existing mosses. There are also exceptions to these rules.


Additionally, the lack of a prefix will specifically describe the descendent scales of 5L 2s: chromatic, enharmonic, and schismic. Descendents of 5L 2s are referred to as "diatonic descendents" rather than "descendents".
#Names for single-period mosses with 5 or fewer notes are the most general names, not limited to an equivalence interval of an octave, and end with -ic or -al. These should be the only mosses that contain the anti- prefix, shortened to an-.
##Monowood is an exception in that it does not end with -ic or -al.
# Names for single-period mosses not of the form 1L ns end with -tonic, suggesting that these are octave-specific and reference a specific interval, or a notable pre-TAMNAMS or other temperament-agnostic name.
##Temperament-based names may be justified if it applies to a mos with a sufficiently narrow generator range, or if no other naming options are available. Such names should end with -oid.
##Mosh, semiquartal, balzano, and pine are exceptions to this rule.
#Single-period mosses of the form 1L ns with 6 or more notes are named after minerals and gemstones.
## This requires renaming existing mosses, namely antimachinoid, antipine, antisubneutralic, and antisinatonic.
# Multi-period mos names should bear the -ic suffix.
##All of the wood mosses are exceptions to this rule, as are lemon, lime, and tcherepnin.
# With the exception of mosses named under rule 1, mosses should avoid having additional prefixes if possible, such as anti-, sub-, or super-, and mosses should avoid sharing the same word stem unless the mosses in question are related in some way.
##Sets of mosses that share a relationship with one another include the following: subaric, jaric, and taric; monowood, biwood, triwood, tetrawood, pentawood; antidiatonic and diatonic (in that they're sister mosses)


In the general case, moschromatic refers to one of two child scales, mosenharmonic refers to one of four grandchild scales, and mosschismic refers to one of eight great-grandchild scales. Specific scales can be referred to by adding an additional prefix; the table below shows those prefixes and the step ratios (of the parent mos) for which they apply. Note that the table shows all possible mosdescendent scales up to three generations, across the entire spectrum of step ratios; specifying a step ratio to any one mos will "lock" the chain of descendents to a single line.
===Changes to existing names===
{| class="wikitable"
This section describes changes to existing [[TAMNAMS]] names that I would make, given the proposal described in the previous section and the following reasons:
|+Mosdescendent scales sorted by step ratio
! colspan="3" |Parent scale
! colspan="4" |Moschromatic scales
! colspan="4" |Mosenharmonic scales
! colspan="4" |Mosschismic scales (names not finalized)
|-
! rowspan="2" |Steps
! colspan="2" |Step ratio of parent (self)
! rowspan="2" |Steps
! rowspan="2" |Specific name
(with prefix)
! colspan="2" |Step ratio of parent
! rowspan="2" |Steps
! rowspan="2" |Specific name
(with prefix)
! colspan="2" |Step ratio of parent
! rowspan="2" |Steps
! rowspan="2" |Specific name
(with prefix)
! colspan="2" |Step ratio of parent
|-
!General range
(softest to hardest)
!Specific ratio
(given L:s = 2:1 for mos)
!General range
(softest to hardest)
!Specific ratio
(given L:s = 2:1 for mos)
!General range
(softest to hardest)
!Specific ratio
(given L:s = 2:1 for mos)
!General range
(softest to hardest)
!Specific ratio
(given L:s = 2:1 for mos)
|-
| rowspan="8" |xL ys
| rowspan="8" |1:1 to 1:0
| rowspan="8" |2:1 (basic)
| rowspan="4" |(x+y)L xs
| rowspan="4" |m-moschromatic
| rowspan="4" |1:1 to 2:1
| rowspan="4" |3:2 (soft)
| rowspan="2" |(x+y)L (2x+y)s
| rowspan="2" |f-mosenharmonic
| rowspan="2" |1:1 to 3:2
| rowspan="2" |4:3 (supersoft)
|(x+y)L (3x+2y)s
|f-mosschismic
|1:1 to 4:3 (ultrasoft)
|5:4
|-
|(3x+2y)L (x+y)s
|a-mosschismic
|4:3 to 3:2 (parasoft)
|7:5
|-
| rowspan="2" |(2x+y)L (x+y)s
| rowspan="2" |m-mosenharmonic
| rowspan="2" |3:2 to 2:1 (hyposoft)
| rowspan="2" |5:3 (semisoft)
|(3x+2y)L (2x+y)s
|u-mosschismic
|3:2 to 5:3 (quasisoft)
|8:5
|-
|(2x+y)L (3x+2y)s
|m-mosschismic
|5:3 to 2:1 (minisoft)
|7:4
|-
| rowspan="4" |xL (x+y)s
| rowspan="4" |p-moschromatic
| rowspan="4" |2:1 to 1:0
| rowspan="4" |3:1 (hard)
| rowspan="2" |(2x+y)L xs
| rowspan="2" |p-mosenharmonic
| rowspan="2" |2:1 to 3:1 (hypohard)
| rowspan="2" |5:2 (semihard)
|(2x+y)L (3x+y)s
|p-mosschismic
|2:1 to 5:2 (minihard)
|7:3
|-
|(3x+y)L (2x+y)s
|q-mosschismic
|5:2 to 3:1 (quasihard)
|8:3
|-
| rowspan="2" |xL (2x+y)s
| rowspan="2" |s-mosenharmonic
| rowspan="2" |3:1 to 1:0
| rowspan="2" |4:1 (superhard)
|(3x+y)L xs
|r-mosschismic
|3:1 to 4:1 (parahard)
|7:2
|-
|xL (3x+y)s
|s-mosschismic
|4:1 to 1:0 (ultrahard)
|5:1
|}
{| class="wikitable"
|+Simplified table, without step ratios, sorted by position on mos family tree
!Parent scale
! colspan="2" |Moschromatic scales
! colspan="2" |Mosenharmonic scales
! colspan="2" |Mosschismic scales
|-
!Steps
!Steps
!Specific name
!Steps
!Specific name
!Steps
!Specific name
|-
| rowspan="8" |xL ys
| rowspan="4" |xL (x+y)s
| rowspan="4" |p-moschromatic
| rowspan="2" |xL (2x+y)s
| rowspan="2" |s-mosenharmonic
|xL (3x+y)s
|s-mosschismic
|-
|(3x+y)L xs
|r-mosschismic
|-
| rowspan="2" |(2x+y)L xs
| rowspan="2" |p-mosenharmonic
|(2x+y)L (3x+y)s
|p-mosschismic
|-
|(3x+y)L (2x+y)s
|q-mosschismic
|-
| rowspan="4" |(x+y)L xs
| rowspan="4" |m-moschromatic
| rowspan="2" |(x+y)L (2x+y)s
| rowspan="2" |f-mosenharmonic
|(x+y)L (3x+2y)s
|f-mosschismic
|-
|(3x+2y)L (x+y)s
|a-mosschismic
|-
| rowspan="2" |(2x+y)L (x+y)s
| rowspan="2" |m-mosenharmonic
|(2x+y)L (3x+2y)s
|m-mosschismic
|-
|(3x+2y)L (2x+y)s
|u-mosschismic
|}


=== Reasoning for names (and example for 5L 2s) ===
*Some names are still based on a temperament (mainly the -oid names), so those are either replaced with a new name or at least altered so the references are more indirect.
The names for moschromatic scales are based on former names for the child scales for diatonic (5L 2s): p-chromatic (5L 7s) and m-chromatic (7L 5s). This was generalized to "chromatic", with the prefixes p- and m- for specificity. The names for mosenharmonic scales are based on discussions with xen Discord members for systematically naming the daughter and granddaughter scales of a mos, producing "enharmonic" with the prefixes s-, p-, f-, and m- for specificity.
*There were Discord users with whom I shared a similar sentiment regarding the names of certain scales, mainly the mosses with the anti- prefix and the scales antidiatonic and superdiatonic.
*Some names are too long (in my opinion).


This proposal initially considered grandchild scales of a mos, and the recent addition of great-grandchild scales was done for completeness. The use of "schismic" to refer to great-grandchild scales is subject to change (I'm open to better suggestions). The prefixes for mosschismic scales borrow those used for mosenharmonic scales (which itself borrows those used for moschromatic scales) and adds four additional prefixes: q- (quasihard), r- (parahard), a- (parasoft), and u- (quasisoft) (also subject to change).
The choice of names are not perfect and some may have issues. Some name suggestions went through different versions. This section is meant to start a discussion on alternate names should a need come up for it. Some of these suggestions may be outdated as TAMNAMS names change, rendering such suggestions unnecessary; notes regarding such changes are in '''bold'''.
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
|+Table of mosdescendent prefixes and meanings
|+
!Prefix
Table of proposed name changes
!For moschromatic scales
! colspan="9" |Proposals for octave-specific mosses currently referred to by equave-agnostic names
!For mosenharmonic scales
!For mosschismic scales
!Mnemonic
|-
|-
|f-
! rowspan="2" |Mos
|n/a
! colspan="3" |Current name
|F for '''f'''lat; f-mosenharmonic scales have a grandparent whose pitches are flatter compared to basic (L:s = 2:1).
! colspan="3" |Suggested name(s)
|F for '''f'''lat.
! rowspan="2" |Reasoning
| rowspan="4" |FAUM sounds like foam, which sounds '''soft'''.
! rowspan="2" |Possible issues and other notes
F-, a-, u-, and m-mosschismic scales generally have a great-grandparent with a '''soft''' step ratio.
|-
|a-
|n/a
|n/a
|A from p'''a'''rasoft, as "P" is taken.
|-
|u-
|n/a
|n/a
|U from q'''u'''asisoft, as "Q" is taken.
|-
|m-
|M for '''m'''aybe/'''m'''ellow; based on old name for 7L 5s
| rowspan="2" |M- and p-mosenharmonic scales have a grandparent whose step ratio is close to the "'''m'''id'''p'''oint" of L:s = 2:1.
| rowspan="2" |M and P for '''m'''id'''p'''oint.
|-
|p-
|P for '''p'''ure/shar'''p'''; based on old name for 5L 7s
| rowspan="4" |PQRS are four consecutive letters in the alphabet. It's '''hard''' to pronounce because there are no vowels.
P-, q-, r-, and s-mosschismic scales generally have a great-grandparent with a '''hard''' step ratio.
|-
|q-
|n/a
|n/a
|Q and R are the only two letters between P and S. Q may stand for '''q'''uasihard.
|-
|r-
|n/a
|n/a
|Q and R are the only two letters between P and S. R may stand for pa'''r'''ahard.
|-
|s-
|n/a
|S for '''s'''harp; f-mosenharmonic scales have a grandparent whose pitches are sharper compared to basic (L:s = 2:1).
|"S" for '''s'''harp.
|}
{| class="wikitable"
|+Names for descendent scales of 5L 2s, sorted by step ratio (softest to hardest)
! colspan="2" |Diatonic scale
! colspan="2" |Chromatic scales
! colspan="2" |Enharmonic scales
! colspan="2" |Schismic scales
|-
|-
!Steps
!Name
!Name
!Steps
!Prefix
!Name
!Abbrev.
!Steps
!Name
!Steps
!Name
!Name
!Prefix
!Abbrev.
|-
|-
| rowspan="8" |[[5L 2s]]
|1L 3s
| rowspan="8" |diatonic
|antetric
| rowspan="4" |[[7L 5s]]
|
| rowspan="4" |m-chromatic
|
| rowspan="2" |[[7L 12s]]
|
| rowspan="2" |f-enharmonic
|
|[[7L 19s]]
|
|f-schismic
| rowspan="6" |The names in this category are not replacements, but octave-specific proposals.
|-
Names for these mosses are based on the base terms "pentoid" and "tetroid" and have appropriate prefixes added. Specifically:
|[[19L 7s]]
|a-schismic
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[12L 7s]]
| rowspan="2" |m-enharmonic
|[[19L 12s]]
|u-schismic
|-
|[[12L 19s]]
|m-schismic
|-
| rowspan="4" |[[5L 7s]]
| rowspan="4" |p-chromatic
| rowspan="2" |[[12L 5s]]
| rowspan="2" |p-enharmonic
|[[12L 17s]]
|p-schismic
|-
|[[17L 12s]]
|q-schismic
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[5L 12s]]
| rowspan="2" |s-enharmonic
|[[17L 5s]]
|r-schismic
|-
|[[5L 17s]]
|s-schismic
|}


== Naming mos modes ==
* For diapentoid, the prefix dia- is chosen, as it refers to both diatonic and, indirectly, antidiatonic.
 
* For mechpentoid, the prefix mech- is chosen for the same reason as dia-.
=== Current proposal, with amendment for emphasis on dark generator ===
* For smotetroid, the prefix smo- is chosen as it combines the prefixes of mosh- and smi-.
There is currently a proposed system for naming mos modes as follows: '''xL ys u|''', where x is the number of large steps, y is the number of small steps, u corresponds to the the mode's UDP (the u in u|d), and | is pronounced as "pipe". As an example, the modes of 4L 1s (manual) can be named as the following:
| rowspan="6" |
{| class="wikitable"
|+Modes of manual (4L 1s)
!Mode
!UDP
!TAMNAMS name
|-
|-
|LLLLs
|3L 1s
|<nowiki>4|0</nowiki>
|tetric
|<nowiki>4L 1s 4|</nowiki>
|
|
|smotetroid
|
|
|-
|-
|LLLsL
|1L 4s
|<nowiki>3|1</nowiki>
|pedal
|<nowiki>4L 1s 3|</nowiki>
|
|
|mechpentoid
|
|
|-
|-
|LLsLL
|4L 1s
|<nowiki>2|2</nowiki>
|manual
|<nowiki>4L 1s 2|</nowiki>
|
|
|
|
|
|-
|-
|LsLLL
|2L 3s
|<nowiki>1|3</nowiki>
|pentic
|<nowiki>4L 1s 1|</nowiki>
|
|
|diapentoid
|
|
|-
|-
|sLLLL
|3L 2s
|<nowiki>0|4</nowiki>
|anpentic
|<nowiki>4L 1s 0|</nowiki>
|
|}
|
In situations where it's more intuitive to think in terms of the dark generator instead of the bright generator, the format is instead '''xL ys |d''', where d corresponds to the mode's UDP (the d in u|d). An example of this can be seen in the classic pentatonic scale (2L 3s), where even though the bright generator corresponds to diatonic's perfect 4th (which is actually diatonic's dark generator), it's common to think of these modes in terms of diatonic's bright generator (even though it's the dark generator of 2L 3s). This is because the bright and dark generators "flip" between 2L 3s to 5L 2s. (In general, generators flip when a mos xL ys has a child of (x+y)L xs, but don't flip if the child is xL (x+y)s, and in general, looking at modes in terms of the dark generator reverses the order of modes compared with the bright generator.)
|
{| class="wikitable"
|
|+Modes of pentic (2L 3s)
|
!Mode
!UDP
!TAMNAMS name
|-
|-
|sLsLL
! colspan="9" |Changes to names that bear a prefix (anti-, sub-, etc) (most justifiable changes)
|<nowiki>0|4</nowiki>
|<nowiki>2L 3s |4</nowiki>
|-
|-
|sLLsL
! rowspan="2" |Mos
|<nowiki>1|3</nowiki>
! colspan="3" |Current name
|<nowiki>2L 3s |3</nowiki>
! colspan="3" |Suggested name(s)
! rowspan="2" |Reasoning
! rowspan="2" |Possible issues and other notes
|-
|-
|LsLsL
!Name
|<nowiki>2|2</nowiki>
!Prefix
|<nowiki>2L 3s |2</nowiki>
!Abbrev.
!Name
! Prefix
!Abbrev.
|-
|-
|LsLLs
|1L 5s
|<nowiki>3|1</nowiki>
|antimachinoid
|<nowiki>2L 3s |1</nowiki>
|amech-
|-
| amech
|LLsLs
|selenite or moonstone
|<nowiki>4|0</nowiki>
|sel- or moon-
|<nowiki>2L 3s |0</nowiki>
| sel or moon
|}
| rowspan="4" |Shorter names. These names follow in the same spirit as "onyx" for 1L 6s in the following ways:


=== Mode names based on mosnames and mosprefixes ===
*"Selenite" is a mineral and is Greek for "moon", indirectly referencing [[luna]] temperament, as does "moonstone".
If a more memorable name is desired but there are no assigned names, interim names can be made using the mos's mosprefix and adding "-nian" or "-ian", then enumerated based on descending order of modal brightness. This produces 1st mosprefixian for the brightest mode, 2nd mosprefixian for the 2nd-brightest mode, etc, similar to [[genchain mode numbering]]. If the mosprefix and mosname are identical (such as with pine and pine-) or nearly identical (such as with jaric and jara-), or the mos is an n-wood scale, then the mosname can be used directly without any prefixes, producing 1st mosname, 2nd mosname, etc.
*"Spinel" contains the word "pine", referencing its sister mos of "pine".
* Depending on pronunciation, the word "agate" may rhyme with "eight".
*Depending on pronunciation, the word "olivine" may rhyme with "nine".
| rowspan="4" |Puns; dependent on pronunciation, which may vary.
A compromise is to recognize both the current and proposed names:


Note that these names can only be made if there is a TAMNAMS name for a mos. Excluding current proposals to extend TAMNAMS names beyond the 10-note limit, this means most mos mode names will typically be formatted as '''xL ys u|'''.
*1L 5s: antimachinoid, selenite
{| class="wikitable"
* 1L 6s: antiarcheotonic (new name), onyx
|+Modes of pine (7L 1s)
* 1L 7s: antipine, spinel
!Mode
*1L 8s: antisubneutralic, agate
!UDP
*1L 9s: antisinatonic, olivine
!Mode name
|-
|-
|LLLLLLLs
|1L 7s
|<nowiki>7|0</nowiki>
|antipine
|1st pine
|apine-
| apine
|spinel
|spin-
|spin
|-
|-
|LLLLLLsL
|1L 8s
|<nowiki>6|1</nowiki>
|antisubneutralic
|2nd pine
|ablu-
|ablu
|agate
| aga- or agat-
|aga
|-
|-
|LLLLLsLL
| 1L 9s
|<nowiki>5|2</nowiki>
|antisinatonic
|3rd pine
|asina-
|asi
|olivine
|oli
|oli
|-
|-
|LLLLsLLL
| rowspan="2" | 2L 5s
|<nowiki>4|3</nowiki>
| rowspan="2" |antidiatonic
|4th pine
| rowspan="2" |pel-
| rowspan="2" |pel
|pelotonic
|unchagned
| unchagned
|Option 1: make 2L 5s more distinct from 5L 2s. This mirrors a few Discord users' sentiments regarding this scale in that it should not be treated as an "inversion" of 5L 2s but should be treated as something unique.
|Connections to 5L 2s may be beneficial to musicians, and this connection already exists for mavila.
Hairtonic.
|-
|-
|LLLsLLLL
|adiatonic
|<nowiki>3|4</nowiki>
|adia-
|5th pine
| adia.
|Option 2: leave it as-is but change the prefix to adia-.
|May be too minor of a change.
|-
|-
|LLsLLLLL
|8L 1s
|<nowiki>2|5</nowiki>
|subneutralic
|6th pine
|blu-
|blu
|azurtonic
| azu- or unchanged
|azu or unchanged
|An indirect reference to [[bleu]] temperament; azure is a specific shade of blue. Simplified name. Also, the sub- prefix may falsely suggest another scale called "(prefix)neutralic", similar to how sub'''aric''' (2L 6s) is the parent to both j'''aric''' (2L 8s) and t'''aric''' (8L 2s).
| New name is referencing a temperament, albeit indirectly. The sub- prefix reasoning may be a stretch, since subaric, jaric, and taric are the only mosses related this way.
|-
|-
|LsLLLLLL
| 3L 2s
|<nowiki>1|6</nowiki>
|antipentic
|7th pine
|apent-
|apt
|anpentic
| unchanged
|unchanged
| Makes the name more consistent with other an- mosses.
|Too minor of a modification. A possible compromise is to accept it as a spelling variant.
|-
|-
|sLLLLLLL
! colspan="9" | Changes to names to reduce or remove references to temperaments (least justifiable changes)
|<nowiki>0|7</nowiki>
|8th pine
|}
{| class="wikitable"
|+Modes of tcherepnin (3L 6s)
!Mode
!UDP
!Mode name
|-
|LssLssLss
|<nowiki>6|0(3)</nowiki>
|1st cherian
|-
|sLssLssLs
|<nowiki>3|3(3)</nowiki>
|2nd cherian
|-
|-
|ssLssLssL
|<nowiki>0|6(3)</nowiki>
|3rd cherian
|}
== Suggested changes for mos pattern names ==
This section describes changes to existing [[TAMNAMS]] names that I would make. Reasons:
* There were Discord users with whom I shared a similar sentiment regarding the names of certain scales, mainly the mosses with the anti- prefix and the scales antidiatonic and superdiatonic.
* Some names are still based on a temperament (mainly the -oid names), so those are either replaced with a new name or at least altered so the references are more indirect.
* Some names are too long (in my opinion).
The choice of names are not perfect and some may have issues. This section is meant to start a discussion on alternate names.
{| class="wikitable"
|+
! rowspan="2" |Mos
! rowspan="2" |Mos
! colspan="3" |Current name
! colspan="3" |Current name
! colspan="3" |Suggested name(s)
! colspan="3" |Suggested name(s)
! rowspan="2" |Reasoning
! rowspan="2" |Reasoning
! rowspan="2" |Possible issues
! rowspan="2" |Possible issues and other notes
|-
|-
!Name
!Name
Line 1,062: Line 1,185:
!Abbrev.
!Abbrev.
!Name
!Name
!Prefix
! Prefix
!Abbrev.
!Abbrev.
|-
|-
|1L 5s
| 5L 1s
|antimachinoid
|amech-
|amech
|selenic
|sel-
|sel
|An indirect reference to [[luna]] temperament; "selene" is Greek for "moon". This drops the anti- prefix.
|
|-
|5L 1s
|machinoid
|machinoid
|mech-
|mech-
|mech
| mech
|mechatonic
|mechatonic
|unchagned
|unchagned
|unchagned
|unchagned
|A more indirect reference to [[machine]] temperament.
|A more indirect reference to [[machine]] temperament.
|Still references machine temperament.
|Still references machine temperament. May also reference [[Subgroup temperaments|mechanism]] temperament. '''May be too minor of a modification.'''
|-
|-
|2L 5s
|3L 7s
|antidiatonic
|sephiroid
|pel-
|seph-
|pel
|seph
|pelic or pelotonic
| sephirotonic or sephiratonic
|unchagned
|unchagned
|unchagned
| unchagned
| rowspan="2" |From "[[pelog]]" and "[[armodue]]". The proposed names are to make both scales more distinct from diatonic. This drops the anti- and super- prefixes.
|Rather than alluding to [[sephiroth]] temperament, the name should allude to Peter Kosmorsky's ''[https://ia800703.us.archive.org/12/items/TractatumDeModiSephiratorum/ModiSephiratorum.pdf Tractatum de Modi Sephiratorum]'' (A Treatise on the Modes of the Sephirates), whose name ultimately comes from the [[wikipedia:Sefirot|sefirot]]. The document describes several edos that are said to contain the "modi sephiratorum" (sephirate modes). Therefore, instead of the name "sephiroid", suggesting that the mos pattern resembles the modi sephiratorum, the mos pattern ''is'' the modi sephiratorum, hence the mosname "sephirotonic".
| rowspan="2" |The connection to diatonic may be beneficial to some musicians. Additionally, the mode names commonly used for both mosses are those from diatonic (lydian, ionian, etc) with the anti- and super- prefixes added.
|May still reference sephiroth temperament. For a more indirect reference, an alternate transliteration of סְפִירוֹת (sefirot) may be used instead.
New names reference pelog tuning and armodue theory.
'''New name is longer than the old name. May also be too minor of a modificaiton.'''
|-
|2L 6s
|subaric
|subar-
|subar
|baric
|bara-
|bar
|Rhymes perfectly with jaric and taric. May also mean "basic -aric", as this mos with a basic step ratio (L:s=2:1) cannot produce jaric or taric, or rather, produces both but equalized.
|'''Too minor of a modification.''' The use of "bar" as an abbreviation may be problematic ("bar" may also mean "measure" in sheet music).
|}
 
=== Table of all proposed changes ===
Changed names are denoted in '''bold'''.
{| class="wikitable center-all"
|+TAMNAMS mos names
! colspan="5" |Mosses with 2-5 notes are skipped entirely.
|-
! colspan="5" |6-note mosses
|-
!Pattern!!Name!!Prefix<ref name="prefix">used in interval, degree and mode names, e.g. ''perfect 3-oneirostep, perfect 3-oneirodegree, oneiro-3-up''</ref>!!Abbr.<ref name="abbr">written abbreviations of prefixes, e.g. ''P3oneis, P3oneid, onei-3|4''</ref>!!Etymology
|-
|[[1L 5s]]||'''selenite; moonstone'''||sel-||sel||indirect reference to luna temperament
|-
|[[2L 4s]]||malic||mal-||mal||apples have two concave ends, lemons have two pointy ends.
|-
|[[3L 3s]]||triwood||triwd-||trw||from 3-wood
|-
|[[4L 2s]]||citric||citro-||cit||parent mos of lemon and lime
|-
|[[5L 1s]]||machinoid||mech-||mech||from [[machine]] temperament
|-
! colspan="5" |7-note mosses
|-
!Pattern!!Name!!Prefix<ref name="prefix" />!!Abbr.<ref name="abbr" />!!Etymology
|-
|[[1L 6s]]||onyx||on-||on||[[#Onyx (1L 6s)|from a ''lot'' of naming puns]]
|-
|[[2L 5s]]||antidiatonic||pel-||pel||pel- is from pelog
|-
|[[3L 4s]]||mosh||mosh-||mosh||Graham Breed's name; from "mohajira-ish"
|-
|[[4L 3s]]||smitonic||smi-||smi||from "sharp minor third"
|-
|[[5L 2s]]||diatonic||dia-||dia||
|-
|[[6L 1s]]||arch(a)eotonic||arch-||arch||originally a name for 13edo's 6L 1s
|-
|-
|7L 2s
! colspan="5" |8-note mosses
|superdiatonic
|arm-
|arm
|armic or armotonic
|unchagned
|unchagned
|-
|-
| rowspan="2" |1L 7s
!Pattern!!Name!!Prefix<ref name="prefix" />!!Abbr.<ref name="abbr" />!!Etymology
| rowspan="2" |antipine
| rowspan="2" |apine-
| rowspan="2" |apine
|astelic, astelanic, or stelanic
|stel-
|stel
|A reference to how [[1L 7s]] is "somewhat of a w'''astelan'''d as far as low-harmonic-entropy scales are concerned". This drops the anti- prefix.
|"Astelic" is coincidentally the name of a YouTuber. The other names avoid this issue.
|-
|-
|conic
|[[1L 7s]]||'''spinel'''||spin-||sp||contains the substring "pine"
|con-
|con
|A pun on '''pine'''cones (porcu'''pine''' and '''pine'''cone). This drops the anti- prefix.
|Pun.
|-
|-
|1L 8s
|[[2L 6s]]||subaric||subar-||subar||largest subset mos of jaric and taric
|antisubneutralic
|ablu-
|ablu
|mineric /mɪnˈeɹɪk/
|mine- (with a silent e)
|minc
|A portmanteau of [[Miracle|'''mi'''racle]] and [[Negri|'''ne'''g'''r'''i]] temperaments. Shorter name. This drops the anti- prefix.
|
|-
|-
|8L 1s
|[[3L 5s]]||checkertonic||check-||chk||from the [[Kite Giedraitis's Categorizations of 41edo Scales|Kite guitar checkerboard scale]]
|subneutralic
|blu-
|blu
|azurtonic
|azu- or unchanged
|azu or unchanged
|An indirect reference to [[bleu]] temperament; azure is a specific shade of blue. Simplified name. The sub- prefix may falsely suggest another scale called "(prefix)neutralic", similar to how sub'''aric''' (2L 6s) is the parent to both j'''aric''' (2L 8s) and t'''aric''' (8L 2s).
|New name is referencing a temperament, albeit indirectly. The sub- prefix reasoning may be a stretch, since subaric, jaric, and taric are the only mosses related this way.
|-
|-
| rowspan="3" |1L 9s
|[[4L 4s]]||tetrawood; diminished||tetrawd-||ttw||from 4-wood
| rowspan="3" |antisinatonic
| rowspan="3" |asina-
| rowspan="3" |asi
|alentic
|alen-
|alen
|An indirect reference to [[Valentine|v'''alent'''ine]] temperament. This drops the anti- prefix.
|Coincidentally the name of a company.
|-
|-
|lupercalic
|[[5L 3s]]||oneirotonic||oneiro-||onei||originally a name for 13edo's 5L 3s
|luper-
|lup
|In reference to Lupercalia, a Roman fertility festival observed on February 15th, compared to Valentine's day, which is February 14th.
|How common is this knowledge?
|-
|-
|pydecic
|[[6L 2s]]||ekic||ek-||ek||from temperaments [[echidna]] and [[hedgehog]]
|pyde-
|pyd
|An indirect reference to "hap'''py dec'''atonic", a name from Graham Breed's naming system. This drops the anti- prefix
|The "py" may falsely suggest a connection with Pythagorean tuning.
|-
|-
| rowspan="2" |3L 7s
|[[7L 1s]]||pine||pine-||pine||from [[porcupine]] temperament
| rowspan="2" |sephiroid
| rowspan="2" |seph-
| rowspan="2" |seph
|septonic
| rowspan="2" |sept- or unchanged
| rowspan="2" |sept or unchanged
|The reference to [[sephiroth]] is made even more indirect. As a bonus, "sept" (meaning seven) may also refer to the 7 small steps of the mos pattern.
|May falsely suggest the scale is 7 notes, when it's actually 10 notes.
|-
|-
|terseptonic
! colspan="5" |9-note mosses
|Like "septonic", but with "ter-" added (meaning 3) to reinforce the step pattern of 3L 7s.
|Somewhat more complicated than "sephiroid".
|-
|-
|7L 3s
!Pattern!!Name!!Prefix<ref name="prefix" />!!Abbr.<ref name="abbr" />!!Etymology
|dicoid and zaltertic
|dico- and zal-
|dico and zal
|zaltertic
|zal-
|zal
|As of writing, there are two names. I would favor zaltertic over dicoid in that it removes a name that suggests a temperament.
|
|}
 
=== Other name changes ===
These are additional changes that I feel are less likely to be implemented, but made to convey additional meaning through a name's suffixes; if anything, these changes are merely for the ''aesthetic''. These changes are built upon proposed name changes from the previous section.
{| class="wikitable"
|+Rules for mos names (single-period only)
!Rule
!Names affected
!Exceptions
|-
|-
|All mosses with 5 steps or fewer end with -al.
|[[1L 8s]]||'''agate'''||ag-||ag||rhymes with "eight", depending on one's pronunciation
|
* anpentic -> anpental
* pentic -> pental
* antetric -> antetral
* tetric -> tetral
|any n-wood scales that fall within this range (monowood and biwood)
|-
|-
|All other 1L ns mosses end with -ic.
|[[2L 7s]]||balzano||bal- /bæl/||bal||from Balzano scale in 20edo which is 2L 7s
|
* antimachinoid -> selenic
* antipne -> stelanic
* antisubneutralic -> mineric
* antisinatonic -> alentic
|onyx (almost sounds like on-ic)
|-
|-
|All other mosses end with -toinc.
|[[3L 6s]]||tcherepnin||cher-||ch||common name
|
* machinoid -> mechatonic
* antidiatonic and superdiatonic -> pelotonic and armotonic
* sephiroid -> septonic
* subneutralic -> azurtonic
|mosh, semiquartal, zaltertic, balzano, pine (they're memorable on their own)
|}
{| class="wikitable"
|+Table of (single-period) mosses with all proposed namechanges
!Mos
!Name
!Mos
!Name
!Mos
!Name
!Mos
!Name
!Mos
!Name
!Mos
!Name
!Mos
!Name
!Mos
!Name
!Mos
!Name
|-
|-
| rowspan="16" |1L 1s
|[[4L 5s]]||gramitonic||gram-||gram||from "grave minor third"
| rowspan="16" |trivial
| rowspan="11" |1L 2s
| rowspan="11" |antrial
| rowspan="8" |1L 3s
| rowspan="8" |antetral
| rowspan="6" |1L 4s
| rowspan="6" |pedal
| rowspan="5" |1L 5s
| rowspan="5" |selenic
| rowspan="4" |1L 6s
| rowspan="4" |onyx
| rowspan="3" |1L 7s
| rowspan="3" |stelanic
| rowspan="2" |1L 8s
| rowspan="2" |mineric
|1L 9s
|alentic
|-
|-
|9L 1s
|[[5L 4s]]||semiquartal||cthon-||cth||from "half fourth" and "chthonic"
|sinatonic
|-
|-
|8L 1s
|[[6L 3s]]||hyrulic||hyru-||hyru||allusion to [[triforce]] temperament
|azurtonic
| colspan="2" rowspan="14" |
|-
|-
|7L 1s
|[[7L 2s]]||superdiatonic; armotonic||arm-||arm||superdiatonic is a common name; arm- and armotonic references [[Armodue]]
|pine
| colspan="2" rowspan="13" |
|-
|-
|6L 1s
|[[8L 1s]]||subneutralic||blu-||blu||derived from the generator being between supraminor and neutral quality. blu- is from [[bleu]] temperament
|arch(a)eotonic
| colspan="2" rowspan="12" |
|-
|-
|5L 1s
! colspan="5" |10-note mosses
|mechatonic
| colspan="2" rowspan="11" |
|-
|-
| rowspan="2" |4L  1s
!Pattern!!Name!!Prefix<ref name="prefix" />!!Abbr.<ref name="abbr" />!!Etymology
| rowspan="2" |manual
|5L 4s
|semiquartal
|-
|-
|4L 5s
|[[1L 9s]]||'''olivine'''||oli-||oli||rhymes with "nine", depending on one's pronunciation
|gramitonic
|-
|-
| rowspan="3" |3L  1s
|[[2L 8s]]||jaric||jara-||jar||from temperaments [[pajara]], [[injera]] and [[diaschismic]]
| rowspan="3" |tetral
|4L 3s
|smitonic
| colspan="2" |
|-
|-
| rowspan="2" |3L  4s
|[[3L 7s]]||sephiroid||seph-||seph||from [[sephiroth]] temperament
| rowspan="2" |mosh
|7L 3s
|zaltertic
|-
|-
|3L 7s
|[[4L 6s]]||lime||lime-||lime||limes/4L 6s's steps tend to be smaller than lemons/6L 4s's steps
|septonic
|-
|-
| rowspan="5" |2L 1s
|[[5L 5s]]||pentawood||pentawd-||pw||from 5-wood
| rowspan="5" |trial
| rowspan="2" |3L 2s
| rowspan="2" |anpental
|3L 5s
|checkertonic
| colspan="2" rowspan="3" |
|-
|-
|5L 3s
|[[6L 4s]]||lemon||lem-||lem||from [[lemba]] temperament
|oneirotonic
|-
|-
| rowspan="3" |2L 3s
|[[7L 3s]]||dicoid /'daɪˌkɔɪd/||dico-||dico||from exotemperaments [[Dicot family#Dichotic|dichotic]] and [[dicot]] (dicoid)
| rowspan="3" |pental
|5L 2s
|diatonic
|-
|-
| rowspan="2" |2L 5s
|[[8L 2s]]||taric||tara-||tar||from Hindi ''aṭhārah'' '[[#Taric (8L 2s)|18]]'
| rowspan="2" |pelotonic
|7L 2s
|armotonic
|-
|-
|2L 7s
|[[9L 1s]]||sinatonic||sina-||si||from [[sinaic]]
|balzano
|}
|}
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[[Category:TAMNAMS]]
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