User:MoreMajorThanMajor/Italic continuum names

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Annapolis:

Named so because its relative dominant represents a sharp 8/5

Calenda:

Meaning: It is the Latin name of the first day of a month. This represents the 15/7 period, which is a candidate for the least complex minor ninth.

Contrapyth:

Meaning: Its period makes its categories run competely against i.e. "contra" any Pythagorean notion of concordance and discordance, hence "contrapyth"

Corcovado:

Meaning: It is the Portuguese word for "hunchback." This represents the period's relative fifith harmonic, which reduces to a diminished fourth (up to 458 cents) instead of a perfect one (458-538 cents).

Esmeralda:

This is name of the gypsy girl in the novel Notre Dame de Paris who turns out to be a French citizen's daughter at just the moment she is about be hung, hence the generator of Janeiro's relative neutral-small major third.

Hugo:

Victor Hugo wrote the novel Notre Dame de Paris, hence being the Janeiro temperament generated by 19/84 period.

Italic:

Origin: 2012

Named from the race of the Neapolitan people (the namesake of the 8:6:5 triad in common pratctice tonality and the most consonant 6-3 triad)

Jamestown:

Named from the possible period of 1607 cents (Jamestown, VA was established in 1607).

Janeiro:

Meaning: It is the Portuguese word for the month of January. This represents the leading "1" of the (diatonic) semitone which is generally the octave reduction of the temperament's period.

Kilometric:

So named because the comma called the "meter" is exactly the 1000th root of its period.

Lampante:

Named for the lowest grade of olive oil because the 30/13 period is equally weak as either a ninth or a tenth.

Marchettus:

Named in honor of Marchettus of Padua, who suggests a cadential major tenth the size of its period in his 13th-century work on tuning theory.

Middletown:

Origin: "2012"

Meaning: Named so because its period dilates the mean (middle) tone temperament mapping into tempering out 64/63.

Monocacy:

Named after the Monocacy River in Frederick County, MD. Monocacy is also a play the medium minor tenth period of the temperament.

Napoli:

Means "Naples" in Italian, given by the fact the its relative subminor triad is the Neapolitan sixth triad.

Notre Dame:

Meaning: The cathedral Notre Dame de Paris is featured in a novel beginning in the month of January (the novel also contains a hunchback), and was also home to the first school of polyphony in European history; therefore the 32/15 period.

Oriole:

Because the Middletown temperament is named after Middletown, MD, Maryland's state bird gets to be the namesake of the temperament with a 12/5 period. (N. B. In spite of the name, the MOS for it is not limited to linear combinations of 3L 4s and 9L 4s)

Potomac:

Named after the Potomac River, into which the Monocacy and the Shenandoah empty; hence its period of a neutral tenth.

Rosada:

The red of roses and of green of emeralds are complementary colors, hence the complementary structure to the Esmeralda scale.

Shenandoah:

Named after the Shenandoah River in Virginia. The initial "sh" is palatal like the "j" in "major"; as in the period of the medium major tenth.

Victoria:

Victoria is the feminine form of "Victor," hence being the inverse of Hugo.