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'''Walker brightness notation''' is a way of naming intervals "invented" by Jay Walker / [[User:VectorGraphics|VectorGraphics]]. It names intervals purely based on their sizes, ignoring [[just intonation]] and [[MOS scale]]s almost entirely (though it takes names from them, specifically [[5L 2s|diatonic]], for the sake of recognizability).  
'''Walker brightness notation''' is a way of naming intervals "invented" by Jay Walker / [[User:VectorGraphics|VectorGraphics]]. It names intervals purely based on their sizes, ignoring [[just intonation]] and [[MOS scale]]s almost entirely (though it takes names from them, specifically [[5L 2s|diatonic]], for the sake of recognizability).  


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=== 6. Resolve ambiguities (stage 5) ===
=== 6. Resolve ambiguities (stage 5) ===
By this point, except for commas, the octave has been subdivided into 10-20c interval regions, suitable for notating edos as large as 71edo without any problems. Where intervals need to be named more precisely than this, however, one may resort to just applying other descriptors like "small", "medium", "large", "grave", "acute", etc, depending on the needs of the scale.
By this point, except for commas, the octave has been subdivided into 10-20c interval regions, suitable for notating edos as large as 71edo without any problems. Where intervals need to be named more precisely than this, however, intervals within a range can be described as follows:
 


- label the smallest and largest intervals in a region "small" and "large".


- if there is an odd number of intervals in a region, label the middle one "medium". if there is an even number, label the middle two "under-medium" (for the lower note) and "over-medium" (for the higher one). (if there are only two intervals in a region, they keep the names small and large.)


- "under" and "over" refer to the next smallest and largest intervals from a certain point, and can be stacked with exponents as a shorthand.


as an example:
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Interval (cents)
!Name
|-
|176
|small artomajor second
|-
|178
|over-small artomajor second
|-
|181
|under-medium artomajor second
|-
|183
|medium artomajor second
|-
|185
|over-medium artomajor second
|-
|187
|under-large artomajor second
|-
|189
|large artomajor second
|-
|192
|small major second
|-
|194
|over-small major second
|-
|196
|under-medium major second
|-
|198
|over-medium major second
|-
|200
|under-large major second
|-
|203
|large major second
|-
|207
|small tendomajor second
|-
|214
|large tendomajor second
|}


[[Category:Interval naming]]
[[Category:Interval naming]]
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