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~~Discussion~~ on the ~~Yahoo~~ tuning ~~list~~, ~~June 2011~~

Georgian folk music is well known for its traditional vocal polyphony. There is no clear consensus on the structure of the underlying scale or tuning system, except that it is heptatonic and close to equalized. It is sometimes claimed that their scales are based on equal divisions of the fifth, but this is hard to verify.

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From a corpus analysis of field recordings by Scherbaum et al.<ref>Scherbaum, F., Mzhavanadze, N., Rosenzweig, S., & Müller, M. (2022). Tuning Systems of Traditional Georgian Singing Determined From a New Corpus of Field Recordings. Musicologist 2022. 6 (2): 142-168. DOI: 10.33906/musicologist.1068947</ref>, the following conclusions can be made:

* Fourths and fifths are close to just.

* Thirds tend to be neutral (around 350{{c}}), as are sixths.

* Harmonic seconds are close to [[9/8]], while the melodic seconds are smaller (between 150{{c}} and 180{{c}}).

~~Dicussion on Facebook, October 2016 - XA II~~

https://www.facebook.com/groups/xenharmonic2/permalink/1239427779410855/

== External links ==

The music of Georgia (7edo vs. tetracot)

* [https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/georgian-polyphonic-singing-00008 Georgian polyphonic singing - intangible heritage - Culture Sector - UNESCO]

* [https://yahootuninggroupsultimatebackup.github.io/tuning/topicId_100326.html https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/tuning/conversations/messages/100326 Discussion on the Yahoo tuning list, June 2011]

* [https://www.facebook.com/groups/xenharmonic2/permalink/1239427779410855/ Dicussion on Facebook, October 2016 - XA II - The music of Georgia (7edo vs. tetracot)]

{{todo|~~clarify|discuss title|inline=1|comment=The following paragraph is unclear. Please see ''[[{{TALKPAGENAME~~}}~~#Kartvelian scales]]''<br>Georgian is also a temperament name}}~~

The [[Kartvelian scales]], named by analogy with the [[wikipedia:Kartvelian_languages|Kartvelian languages]], of which the [[wikipedia:Georgian_language|Georgian language]] is the main representative, generalize this approach to a tuning of arbitrary size.

~~== See also ==~~

[[Category:Georgian music| ]]

* [[Wikipedia: Music of Georgia (country)]]

== References ==

* [https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/georgian-polyphonic-singing-00008 Georgian polyphonic singing - intangible heritage - Culture Sector - UNESCO]

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-Discussion on the Yahoo tuning list, June 2011
+{{Wikipedia| Music of Georgia (country) }}
+Georgian folk music is well known for its traditional vocal polyphony. There is no clear consensus on the structure of the underlying scale or tuning system, except that it is heptatonic and close to equalized. It is sometimes claimed that their scales are based on equal divisions of the fifth, but this is hard to verify.
-[https://yahootuninggroupsultimatebackup.github.io/tuning/topicId_100326.html https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/tuning/conversations/messages/100326]
+From a corpus analysis of field recordings by Scherbaum et al.<ref>Scherbaum, F., Mzhavanadze, N., Rosenzweig, S., & Müller, M. (2022). Tuning Systems of Traditional Georgian Singing Determined From a New Corpus of  Field Recordings. Musicologist 2022. 6 (2): 142-168. DOI: 10.33906/musicologist.1068947</ref>, the following conclusions can be made:
+* Fourths and fifths are close to just.
+* Thirds tend to be neutral (around 350{{c}}), as are sixths.
+* Harmonic seconds are close to [[9/8]], while the melodic seconds are smaller (between 150{{c}} and 180{{c}}).
-Dicussion on Facebook, October 2016 - XA II
-https://www.facebook.com/groups/xenharmonic2/permalink/1239427779410855/
+== External links ==
-The music of Georgia (7edo vs. tetracot)
+* [https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/georgian-polyphonic-singing-00008 Georgian polyphonic singing &#45; intangible heritage &#45; Culture Sector &#45; UNESCO]
+* [https://yahootuninggroupsultimatebackup.github.io/tuning/topicId_100326.html https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/tuning/conversations/messages/100326 Discussion on the Yahoo tuning list, June 2011]
+* [https://www.facebook.com/groups/xenharmonic2/permalink/1239427779410855/ Dicussion on Facebook, October 2016 - XA II - The music of Georgia (7edo vs. tetracot)]
-{{todo|clarify|discuss title|inline=1|comment=The following paragraph is unclear. Please see ''[[{{TALKPAGENAME}}#Kartvelian scales]]''<br>Georgian is also a temperament name}}
+{{todo|Cultural expertise}}
-The [[Kartvelian scales]], named by analogy with the [[wikipedia:Kartvelian_languages|Kartvelian languages]], of which the [[wikipedia:Georgian_language|Georgian language]] is the main representative, generalize this approach to a tuning of arbitrary size.
-== See also ==
+[[Category:Georgian music| ]] <!-- main article -->
-* [[Wikipedia: Music of Georgia (country)]]
+== References ==
-* [https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/georgian-polyphonic-singing-00008 Georgian polyphonic singing &#45; intangible heritage &#45; Culture Sector &#45; UNESCO]