Temperament naming: Difference between revisions

* The name is simpler but not so simple as to be absurd and implicatory of many alternate candidates (an example of the latter is "[[commatic]]" temperament).

=== [[Amity]] ===

Origin: Paul Erlich (2002)

Meaning: A restructuring of the words "acute minor third." The ideal generator for Amity is between a minor third and neutral third.

=== [[Augmented (temperament)|Augmented]] ===

Origin: Paul Erlich and Carl Lumma (2002)

"Augmented" gets its name from its 1/3-octave period, corresponding to an augmented triad.<ref>[https://yahootuninggroupsultimatebackup.github.io/tuning/topicId_34327#34708 Yahoo! Tuning Groups | ''new equal temperament 5-limit error lattices''] - "i think carl and i just came to the consensus here that ... the [temperament] you're calling 'diesic' should be

called 'augmented'. besides the reasons already given ... the period of the 'augmented' linear temperament is 1/3 octave (thus outlining an augmented triad)." —Paul Erlich</ref>

=== [[Ammonite]] ===

Origin: Keenan Pepper (2011)

Meaning: Keenan Pepper suggested it was a good name of a weird spiral-shaped animal, for a temperament in the porcupine family (like nautilus)

=== [[A-team]] ===

Origin: Igliashon Jones (2011)

A-Team is a pun on "eighteen," since the 2.9.21 subgroup of A-Team is nearly optimal in 18edo.<ref>[https://yahootuninggroupsultimatebackup.github.io/tuning-math/topicId_18559.html#18563 Yahoo! Tuning Group | ''1029'']</ref>

=== [[Augene]] ===

Originally tripletone, in analogy with twintone, but when twintone was renamed pajara Paul Erlich suggested it should be augene, after augmented and Gene Smith.

=== [[Avila]] ===

Origin: Mike Battaglia, Ron Sword, Ryan Avella (2011)

Meaning: Originally discovered by Ryan by accident while he was reading the mapping for Mavila temperament incorrectly. It is the original spelling of Ryan's surname.

=== [[Beatles]] ===

Origin: Gene Ward Smith (2003)

Named for the 19\64 generator, since 1964 is the year the Beatlemania swept the world.<ref>[https://yahootuninggroupsultimatebackup.github.io/tuning-math/topicId_5279.html#5299 Yahoo! Tuning Group | ''Poptimal generators'']</ref>

=== [[Limmic temperaments #Blacksmith|Blackwood]] ===

Origin: Gene Ward Smith and Paul Erlich (2002)<ref>[https://yahootuninggroupsultimatebackup.github.io/tuning-math/topicId_4554.html Yahoo! Tuning Group | ''Modified best 5-limit geometric list'']</ref><ref>[https://yahootuninggroupsultimatebackup.github.io/tuning-math/topicId_5080.html Yahoo! Tuning Group | ''Ultimate 5-limit comma list'']</ref>

Meaning: Named after Easley Blackwood's 10-out-of-15 maximally even scale.  

=== [[Breed (temperament)|Breed]] ===

Origin: Gene Ward Smith (2004)

Named after [[Graham Breed]]. See [[breedsma]] for sources.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Confusingly, in [[Jean-Philippe Rameau]]'s [[Treatise on Harmony]] from 1722, he called [[2048/2025]] the "diminished comma", and so in a way "diminished temperament" should already have been considered taken; the modern name for 2048/2025, the diaschisma, which gives its name to the diaschismic temperament, comes from [[Hermann von Helmholtz]] much later, in 1875.<ref>[https://yahootuninggroupsultimatebackup.github.io/tuning/topicId_62661#62683 Yahoo! Tuning Groups | ''Diaschisma article'']</ref> The interval [[648/625]], the modern "diminished comma" by virtue of it being the one diminished temperament makes vanish, has been called the "major diesis" or "greater diesis",<ref>[[Wikipedia: Diesis]]</ref> and so "major diesic" was also proposed as a name for this temperament.<ref>[https://yahootuninggroupsultimatebackup.github.io/tuning-math/topicId_2064#2067 Yahoo! Tuning Groups | ''Kleismic & co'']</ref> This would have gone along with [[128/125]] being the "(minor/lesser) diesis" and thus "minor diesic" temperament. Despite this not working out this way (due in part to too many things being named using "diesis"), in the end "diminished" and "augmented" still came out as an opposing pair. 

 

 

 

 

 

=== [[Ervsec]] ===

 

=== [[Father]] ===

Origin: 2000s?

 

Meaning: A combination of the words "fourth" and "third." This is meant to represent the unification of perfect fourths and major thirds in Father temperament.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marvel was discovered while investigating slendric temperament, which at the time was called "wonder", and so "marvel" was introduced as an implicit variation on that name; along with miracle, then, there were now three temperaments with names conveying extraordinary goodness, so this began to constitute a temperament naming theme. See the temperament's dedicated page for sources.

=== [[Mavila]] ===

Origin: Erv Wilson (1989)

Meaning: Named after the Chopi village of Mavila in Mozambique, known for their use near-equal heptatonic scales. Nobody can agree on how to pronounce this word. See the temperament's dedicated page for sources.

=== [[Meantone]] ===

Origin: really really old

Meaning: Named so because it maps the major whole tone (9/8) and the minor whole tone (10/9) to the same interval, which is near the average of the two tones in ideal tunings.

=== [[Migration]] ===

Meaning: A temperament closely related to mohajira, which means "migrating".

=== [[Miracle]] ===

Origin: Paul Erlich (May 2001?)

Double meaning: It is a miracle that this scale is so accurate! And it is an acronym "Multiple Integer Ratios Approximated Consistently, Linearly and Evenly."

=== [[Mohajira]] ===

Origin: Jacques Dudon

Meaning: from Arabic مهاجرة ''muhājirah'' which roughly means "migrating".

=== [[Mothra]] ===

Origin: Gene Ward Smith

Named after a Japanese fictional monster: a daikaiju name for a temperament with ~8/7 generator. Mothra has defeated Godzilla more times than any other daikaiju; the musical meaning of this fact is at best speculative.

=== [[Myna]] ===

Myna is related to starling, the 126/125 planar temperament, and a myna is a member of the starling family (Sturnidae). Myna is also a play on minor third, the generator.

=== [[Negri]] ===

Origin: Paul Erlich (2001)

Meaning: Named after John Negri's 10-out-of-19 maximally even scale. See the temperament's dedicated page for sources.

=== [[Octacot]] ===

Meaning: 3/2 is divided into 8 equal parts, therefore "octa-".

=== [[Orgone]] ===

Origin: Andrew Heathwaite (2010)

Meaning: An analogy between Wilhelm Reich's proposal for an invisible, ephemeral creative energy and the subtleties of the higher harmonics 7 and 11. Superkleismic can be viewed as orgone extended to the full 11-limit.

=== [[Orwell]] ===

Origin: Gene Ward Smith (2001)

Meaning: Named after George Orwell's book 1984, because of the generator of 19\84.

=== [[Pajara]] ===

Origin: Originally (up to 2001) paultone and then twintone, in analogy with meantone, but Paul Erlich didn't like this and suggested pajara, after "Paul, John, and Ara," the three people jamming at his house at some random point in time.

=== [[Porcupine]] ===

Origin: Herman Miller (1999)

Meaning: Named after Herman Miller's Mizarian Porcupine Overture in 15edo.

=== [[Quadritikleismic]] ===

Has a kleismic generator, so that (6/5)⁶ = 3, and four periods per octave, therefore quadri-.

=== [[Rodan]] ===

Origin: Gene Ward Smith

Named after a Japanese fictional monster. A daikaiju name, from the 8/7 generator.

=== [[Semaphore]] ===

Meaning: semi-fourth, i.e. half of a 4/3.

=== [[Semisept]] ===

Meaning: semi-(septimal major sixth), i.e. half of a 12/7.<ref>Evidence for this interpretation can be found here, though the writer does not confirm it: [https://yahootuninggroupsultimatebackup.github.io/tuning-math/topicId_16972#16979 Yahoo! Tuning Group | ''Complete Rank 2 Temperament Searches'']</ref>

=== [[Sensi]] ===

Originally semisixths, but after it was decided that "bi" or "semi" should be half for periods and "hemi" should be half for generators, that was contracted to sensi.<ref>[https://yahootuninggroupsultimatebackup.github.io/tuning/topicId_97722.html#97733 ''Temperament names''] "The idea here is to use 'hemi' only when the generator is split in towo, not when the period is split in two." —Gene Ward Smith</ref>

For more information on the origin of the "-pent" part of "sensipent", see [[#Dimipent|Dimipent]].

=== [[Slendric]] ===

Named after slendro which it resembles very little. (According to {{w|Raden Machjar Angga Koesoemadinata}}'s findings regarding Sundanese gamelan and Western findings regarding gamelan in general, real slendro is almost definitely within the 9&amp;17 temperament area.{{citation needed}})

=== [[Squares]] ===

Named from the fact that the wedgie is {{multival|4 16 9 … }}, which is 2², 4², 3².

=== [[Starling]] ===

Origin: Herman Miller (1999)

The 126/125 planar temperament, named after Herman Miller's Starling scale. See the temperament's dedicated page for sources.  

=== [[Srutal]] ===

A name proposed by Paul Erlich because the 22-tone MOS looks a lot like the Indian Shruti scale.

=== [[Superkleismic]] ===

The 6/5 generator is ~322 cents, sharper than the kleismic 6/5, hence "super-". Can be restricted to 2.7.11 (orgone) or 2.5/3.7.11 (magicaltet).

=== [[Superpyth]] ===

Meaning: Fifths are sharper than the just ratio of 3/2, hence "Superpythagorean"

=== [[Tetracot]] ===

Meaning: 3/2 is divided into 4 equal parts, hence "tetra-". Not sure why "-cot" (see Dicot above).

=== [[Tricot]] ===

Origin: Paul Erlich (2002)

Meaning: 3/1 is divided into three equal parts, hence "tri-". See the temperament's dedicated page for sources.  

=== [[Triforce]] ===

Triforce has 3 periods per octave, hence tri-.

=== [[Tritikleismic]] ===

Tritikleismic has a kleismic generator, so that (6/5)⁶ = 3, and 3 periods per octave (therefore tri-.)

=== [[Valentine]] ===

Named for Robert C Valentine.

=== [[Whitewood]] ===

Origin: Mike Battaglia (2010)<ref>[https://yahootuninggroupsultimatebackup.github.io/tuning/topicId_95296.html Yahoo! Tuning Group | ''7&14 temperament - 14 out of 35'']</ref>

Meaning: Black keys are to Blackwood as white keys are to Whitewood.

=== [[Würschmidt]] ===

Named for physicist José Würschmidt.