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Similarly to tertian harmony in diatonic and [[chain of fifths]]-based systems, a system of harmony for didacus can be constructed based on these hexatonic categories. The fundamental chord, 4:5:7:8, splits the hexatone into intervals of 2, 3, and 1 tones respectively, so that 4:5:7 is a tritone stacked atop a ditone, 5:7:8 is a wholetone stacked atop a tritone, and 7:8:10 is a ditone stacked atop a wholetone. We can then take these chords' complements to achieve the other permutations of 1, 2, and 3. Notably, other chords one may want to use, such as 8:11:14, also fit into this format; 8:11:14 is a ditone stacked atop a tritone, and in that fashion much can be obtained from creating different harmonies from inflections of hexatonic interval categories.

=== Isomorphism with Sirius ===

One of the more peculiar properties of the Didacus temperament is its relationship with the [[3.5.7 subgroup]] temperament [[Sirius]]. Sirius tempers out [[3125/3087]] which is the Don Page comma between 7/5 and [[5/3]]: it is the difference between 5/3 stacked twice and 7/5 stacked thrice, so that 5/3 spans three generators (representing (5/3)/(7/5) = [[25/21]]) and 7/5 spans two. Therefore [[7/3]], the [[tritave]]-reduced harmonic 7, is split into 5 equal parts, 3 of which represent 5/3, the tritave-reduced harmonic 5, and we can see that the 3:5:7 chord in Sirius and 4:5:7 chord in Didacus are isomorphic to each other's complement.

Even more interestingly, Sirius also has [[6L 1s (3/1-equivalent)|6L 1s]] and [[6L 7s (3/1-equivalent)|6L 7s]] MOS scales, which have the same shape as the 7- and 13-note MOSes of Didacus, and a descendant 19-note MOS scale. While the cardinalities of scales diverge between the temperaments after 19 notes, a quite analogous hexatonic picture to the previous section can be constructed for Sirius, and in sharing this structure despite the massive stretch between octaves and tritaves, Didacus and Sirius provide a unique avenue for transferring consonant octave-repeating no-threes harmony into consonant tritave-repeating no-twos harmony.

== Tunings ==

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 Similarly to tertian harmony in diatonic and [[chain of fifths]]-based systems, a system of harmony for didacus can be constructed based on these hexatonic categories. The fundamental chord, 4:5:7:8, splits the hexatone into intervals of 2, 3, and 1 tones respectively, so that 4:5:7 is a tritone stacked atop a ditone, 5:7:8 is a wholetone stacked atop a tritone, and 7:8:10 is a ditone stacked atop a wholetone. We can then take these chords' complements to achieve the other permutations of 1, 2, and 3. Notably, other chords one may want to use, such as 8:11:14, also fit into this format; 8:11:14 is a ditone stacked atop a tritone, and in that fashion much can be obtained from creating different harmonies from inflections of hexatonic interval categories.
+=== Isomorphism with Sirius ===
+One of the more peculiar properties of the Didacus temperament is its relationship with the [[3.5.7 subgroup]] temperament [[Sirius]]. Sirius tempers out [[3125/3087]] which is the Don Page comma between 7/5 and [[5/3]]: it is the difference between 5/3 stacked twice and 7/5 stacked thrice, so that 5/3 spans three generators (representing (5/3)/(7/5) = [[25/21]]) and 7/5 spans two. Therefore [[7/3]], the [[tritave]]-reduced harmonic 7, is split into 5 equal parts, 3 of which represent 5/3, the tritave-reduced harmonic 5, and we can see that the 3:5:7 chord in Sirius and 4:5:7 chord in Didacus are isomorphic to each other's complement.
+Even more interestingly, Sirius also has [[6L 1s (3/1-equivalent)|6L 1s]] and [[6L 7s (3/1-equivalent)|6L 7s]] MOS scales, which have the same shape as the 7- and 13-note MOSes of Didacus, and a descendant 19-note MOS scale. While the cardinalities of scales diverge between the temperaments after 19 notes, a quite analogous hexatonic picture to the previous section can be constructed for Sirius, and in sharing this structure despite the massive stretch between octaves and tritaves, Didacus and Sirius provide a unique avenue for transferring consonant octave-repeating no-threes harmony into consonant tritave-repeating no-twos harmony.
 == Tunings ==