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The '''cathartic''' temperament is a rank-3 [[regular temperament]] for the 2.3.5.7.17.19 [[subgroup]] (or any immediate restrictions thereof), defined by [[tempering out]] [[1216/1215]], [[1225/1224]], and [[1445/1444]]. It is generated by a perfect fifth (~[[3/2]]) and an ultramajor second (~[[81/70]]). It is first found and explored by [[Flora Canou]].
#redirect [[Cathartic family #Cathartic]]
 
See [[Cathartic family #Cathartic]] for more technical data.
 
== Overview ==
The temperament was at first discovered as [[7-limit]] only, where it tempers out the [[cathartic comma]], 4802000/4782969 = {{monzo| 4 -14 3 4 }}. It passes as a [[microtemperament]] with the [[9-odd-limit]] [[minimax tuning|minimax]] error of 0.98[[¢]] (1/7 cathartic comma). Extending it to the 2.3.5.7.17.19 subgroup adds virtually no additional error as the number of minimax error is also characteristic of the [[tonality diamond]] of {1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 15, 17, 19, 21}.
 
{| class="wikitable"
! Name
! Ratio
! Cents
! Monzo
|-
| Password
| 1216/1215
| 1.42430
| {{monzo| 6 -5 -1 0 0 0 0 1 }}
|-
| Noellisma
| 1225/1224
| 1.41383
| {{monzo| -3 -2 2 2 0 0 -1 }}
|-
| Aureusma
| 1445/1444
| 1.19850
| {{monzo| -2 0 1 0 0 0 2 -2 }}
|}
 
The password equates 19/15 with 81/64, 20/19 with 256/243, and 81/80 with 76/75. It characterizes the temperament with a counterpyth fifth and enables 19-odd-limit essentially tempered chords. The aureusma splits the 5/4 major third into a stack of two 19/17's and enables 19-odd-limit essentially tempered chords. The noema equates 35/34 with 36/35 and enables 25-odd-limit essentially tempered chords. Finally, cathartic tempers out 165376/165375, the decimillisma, the difference between 1216/1215 and 1225/1224.
 
{| class="wikitable"
! Name
! Ratio
! Cents
! Monzo
|-
| Decimillisma
| 165376/165375
| 0.01047
| {{monzo| 9 -3 -3 -2 0 0 1 1 }}
|}
 
Recommendable edo tunings include 94, 99, 118, 193, 217, 311, 410 and 721, with 721 giving the OPV for the 2.3.5.7.17.19 subgroup.
 
Decent amount of harmonic resources are provided by a simple 9-note scale. Flora Canou commented:
 
:''— It sounds somewhat like a Phrygian scale but the abundance of small intervals of [[28/27]] makes it melodically active.''
 
14- and 19-note scales are also highly concise for the temperament. See [[#scales]] for more information.
 
== Interval lattice ==
<gallery>
File:Lattice Orthocanousmic.png
File:Lattice Orthocanousmic Rearranged.png
</gallery>
 
== Scales ==
{{Main| Cathartic scales }}
 
Fokker blocks of 9, 14 and 19 tones are among the most useful cathartic scales.


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