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* [[Regular temperament]]s (including [[linear temperament]]s): a centuries-old practice that has recently undergone a mathematical facelift, in which just intonation is selectively and regularly detuned in various ways, to better meet a variety of compositional desires
* [[Regular temperament]]s (including [[linear temperament]]s): a centuries-old practice that has recently undergone a mathematical facelift, in which just intonation is selectively and regularly detuned in various ways, to better meet a variety of compositional desires
* [[Historical temperaments]]: The (somewhat forgotten) use of [[Pythagorean tuning]], [[meantone]] tunings and [[well temperament]]s in Western common practice music.
* [[Historical temperaments]]: The (somewhat forgotten) use of [[Pythagorean tuning]], [[meantone]] tunings and [[well temperament]]s in Western common practice music.
* [[Homothetic just intonation]]: Just intonation with extra tones added in between according to a specific method.
* [[Xenharmonic series]]: Just intonation but the entire matrix of just intervals is stretched, squished or otherwise warped or manipulated for interesting effect.
* [[Xenharmonic series]]: Just intonation but the entire matrix of just intervals is stretched, squished or otherwise warped or manipulated for interesting effect.


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* [[Arabic, Turkish, Persian|Arabic]]
* [[Arabic, Turkish, Persian|Arabic]]
* [http://orthodoxwiki.org/Byzantine_Chant#The_scale Byzantine]
* [http://orthodoxwiki.org/Byzantine_Chant#The_scale Byzantine]
* [[Georgian]]
* [[Wikipedia:Music of Croatia|Croatian]] (including the [[Istrian]] scale)
* [[Music of Georgia|Georgian]]
* [[Indian]] (e.g. North, South)
* [[Indian]] (e.g. North, South)
* [[Indonesian]] (e.g. Java, Bali)
* [[Indonesian]] (most famously [[gamelan]])
* [[Arabic, Turkish, Persian|Iranian (Persian)]]
* [[Arabic, Turkish, Persian|Iranian (Persian)]]
* [[Pre-Columbian South American Music|Pre-Columbian South American]] (e.g. Maya, Inca, Aztec)
* [[Pre-Columbian South American Music|Pre-Columbian South American]] (e.g. Maya, Inca, Aztec)
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** Acoustically-based scales (resonant frequencies of performance space, for example)
** Acoustically-based scales (resonant frequencies of performance space, for example)
** Scale transformation and stretching
** Scale transformation and stretching
** Counter-intuitive, random, arbitrary scales
** Counter-intuitive, random, or [[:Category:Novelties|arbitrary]] scales


== See also ==
== See also ==