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== Theory ==

55edo ~~is a [[zeta valley edo]], so it does not approximate the harmonic series very well for its size. Despite this, it can be used as a~~ [[meantone]] ~~tuning~~, and is close to [[1/6-comma meantone]] ~~(and is almost exactly 10/57-comma meantone)~~. {{w|Georg Philipp Telemann|Telemann}} suggested it as a theoretical basis for analyzing the [[meantone intervals|intervals of meantone]]. {{w|Leopold Mozart|Leopold}} and {{w|Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Wolfgang Mozart}} recommended 55edo or something close to it, with a subset and further approximation used for keyboard instruments which (apart from an experimental instrument) did not have enough notes per octave to accommodate it in full.<ref>Chesnut, John (1977) ''Mozart's Teaching of Intonation'', '''Journal of the American Musicological Society''' Vol. 30, No. 2 (Summer, 1977), pp. 254-271 (Published By: University of California Press) [https://doi.org/10.2307/831219 doi.org/10.2307/831219], [http://www.jstor.org/stable/831219 https://www.jstor.org/stable/831219]</ref> It can also be used for [[mohajira]] and [[liese]] temperaments. It also supports an extremely sharp tuning of [[huygens|huygens/undecimal meantone]] using the 55de [[val]], meaning that primes 7 and 11 are mapped very sharply to their second-best mapping.

55edo supports [[meantone]], and is close to [[1/6-comma meantone]]. {{w|Georg Philipp Telemann|Telemann}} suggested it as a theoretical basis for analyzing the [[meantone intervals|intervals of meantone]]. {{w|Leopold Mozart|Leopold}} and {{w|Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Wolfgang Mozart}} recommended 55edo or something close to it, with a subset and further approximation used for keyboard instruments which (apart from an experimental instrument) did not have enough notes per octave to accommodate it in full.<ref>Chesnut, John (1977) ''Mozart's Teaching of Intonation'', '''Journal of the American Musicological Society''' Vol. 30, No. 2 (Summer, 1977), pp. 254-271 (Published By: University of California Press) [https://doi.org/10.2307/831219 doi.org/10.2307/831219], [http://www.jstor.org/stable/831219 https://www.jstor.org/stable/831219]</ref> It can also be used for [[mohajira]] and [[liese]] temperaments. It also supports an extremely sharp tuning of [[huygens|huygens/undecimal meantone]] using the 55de [[val]], meaning that primes 7 and 11 are mapped very sharply to their second-best mapping. 55edo is a [[zeta valley edo]], suggesting it does not approximate the harmonic series very well for its size.

=== Odd harmonics ===

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== Notation ==

=== ~~Ups~~ and downs notation ===

=== Stein–Zimmermann–Gould notation ===

55edo can be notated with [[ups and downs]], spoken as up, dup, downsharp, sharp, upsharp etc. and down, dud, upflat etc. Note that dup is equivalent to dudsharp and dud is equivalent to dupflat.

[[Stein–Zimmermann–Gould notation]] uses sharps and flats combined with quartertone accidentals and arrows:

=== Kite's ups and downs notation ===

55edo can also be notated with [[Kite's ups and downs notation|Kite's ups and downs]], spoken as up, dup, downsharp, sharp, upsharp etc. and down, dud, upflat etc. Note that dup is equivalent to dudsharp and dud is equivalent to dupflat.

[[Alternative symbols for ups and downs notation]] uses sharps, flats, half- and sesquisharps, and half- and sesquiflats with arrows, borrowed from extended [[Helmholtz–Ellis notation]] and [[24edo #Stein–Zimmermann accidentals|Stein-Zimmerman accidental set]]:

~~{{Sharpness-sharp4}}~~

=== Sagittal notation ===

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{{Q-odd-limit intervals|55.05|apx=val|header=none|tag=none|title=15-odd-limit intervals by 55d val mapping}}

{{Q-odd-limit intervals|54.95|apx=val|header=none|tag=none|title=15-odd-limit intervals by 55f val mapping}}

{{Q-odd-limit intervals|54.91|apx=val|header=none|tag=none|title=15-odd-limit intervals by 55cf val mapping}}

== Regular temperament properties ==

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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfOt3nOp-f8 ''Prelude in E Minor "The Great"''] – rendered by [[Claudi Meneghin]] (2023)

* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuIPIhSxUPs ''Prelude in E Minor "The Little"''] – rendered by Claudi Meneghin (2024)

; {{W|John Bull (composer)|John Bull}}

* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2d-540RuoM ''Fantasia «Ut Re Mi Fa Sol La»''] (late 1500s/early 1600s, from ''Fitzwilliam Virginal Book Vol.1 No.51'') – rendered by Claudi Meneghin (2026)

; {{W|Louis Couperin}}

* [https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bcgY3k-6rao ''La Piémontoise''] (1658?) – rendered by Claudi Meneghin (2026)

; {{W|Georg Frideric Handel}}

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; {{W|Scott Joplin}}

* ''Maple Leaf Rag'' (1899) – arranged for harpsichord and rendered by [[Claudi Meneghin]] ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbhpuoIJgxk 2024 version]; [https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3Y9y9I6q1as 2026 version])

; {{W|Mladen Milićević}}

* [https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1BhIK0s2-vs "The Room" from ''The Room''] (2003) – covered by [[Bryan Deister]] (2026)

; {{W|Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart}}

* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_AML6XW-2g ''Rondo alla Turca'' from the Piano Sonata No. 11, KV 331] (1778) – rendered by Francium (2023)

* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_AML6XW-2g ''Rondo alla Turca'' from the Piano Sonata No. 11, K. 331] (1778) – rendered by Francium (2023)

* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgRksdk6zyQ ''Fugue in G minor'', KV 401] (1782) – rendered by Francium (2023)

* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgRksdk6zyQ ''Fugue in G minor'', K. 401] (1782) – rendered by Francium (2023)

* [http://www.seraph.it/dep/int/AdagioKV540.mp3 ''Adagio in B minor'', KV 540] (1788) – rendered by Carlo Serafini (2011) ([http://www.seraph.it/blog_files/706c4662272db7703def4d57edfcb955-119.html blog entry])

* [http://www.seraph.it/dep/int/AdagioKV540.mp3 ''Adagio in B minor'', K. 540] (1788) – rendered by Carlo Serafini (2011) ([http://www.seraph.it/blog_files/706c4662272db7703def4d57edfcb955-119.html blog entry])

* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFjJCj2MBTM ''Allegro'' from the Piano Sonata No. 16, KV 545] (1788) – rendered by Francium (2023)

* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFjJCj2MBTM ''Allegro'' from the Piano Sonata No. 16, K. 545] (1788) – rendered by Francium (2023)

* ''~~Mozart's~~ Gigue ~~KV 574~~'' – rendered by [[Claudi Meneghin]]

* ''Kleine Gigue in G'', K. 574 (1789) – rendered by [[Claudi Meneghin]]

** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p88MWgdio14&list=PLC6ZSKWKnVz0mOTLQkCUi9ydWGLpBP8gZ&index=2 Fortepiano rendition] (2025)

** [https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7jt-jzziDBg Harpsichord rendition] (2026)

** [https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9J1DkS5UGzE Organ rendition] (2026)

; {{W|Keiichi Okabe}}

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 == Theory ==
-edo is a [[zeta valley edo]], so it does not approximate the harmonic series very well for its size. Despite this, it can be used as a [[meantone]] tuning, and is close to [[1/6-comma meantone]] (and is almost exactly 10/57-comma meantone). {{w|Georg Philipp Telemann|Telemann}} suggested it as a theoretical basis for analyzing the [[meantone intervals|intervals of meantone]]. {{w|Leopold Mozart|Leopold}} and {{w|Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Wolfgang Mozart}} recommended 55edo or something close to it, with a subset and further approximation used for keyboard instruments which (apart from an experimental instrument) did not have enough notes per octave to accommodate it in full.<ref>Chesnut, John (1977) ''Mozart's Teaching of Intonation'', '''Journal of the American Musicological Society''' Vol. 30, No. 2 (Summer, 1977), pp. 254-271 (Published By: University of California Press) [https://doi.org/10.2307/831219 doi.org/10.2307/831219], [http://www.jstor.org/stable/831219 https://www.jstor.org/stable/831219]</ref> It can also be used for [[mohajira]] and [[liese]] temperaments. It also supports an extremely sharp tuning of [[huygens|huygens/undecimal meantone]] using the 55de [[val]], meaning that primes 7 and 11 are mapped very sharply to their second-best mapping.
+edo supports [[meantone]], and is close to [[1/6-comma meantone]]. {{w|Georg Philipp Telemann|Telemann}} suggested it as a theoretical basis for analyzing the [[meantone intervals|intervals of meantone]]. {{w|Leopold Mozart|Leopold}} and {{w|Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Wolfgang Mozart}} recommended 55edo or something close to it, with a subset and further approximation used for keyboard instruments which (apart from an experimental instrument) did not have enough notes per octave to accommodate it in full.<ref>Chesnut, John (1977) ''Mozart's Teaching of Intonation'', '''Journal of the American Musicological Society''' Vol. 30, No. 2 (Summer, 1977), pp. 254-271 (Published By: University of California Press) [https://doi.org/10.2307/831219 doi.org/10.2307/831219], [http://www.jstor.org/stable/831219 https://www.jstor.org/stable/831219]</ref> It can also be used for [[mohajira]] and [[liese]] temperaments. It also supports an extremely sharp tuning of [[huygens|huygens/undecimal meantone]] using the 55de [[val]], meaning that primes 7 and 11 are mapped very sharply to their second-best mapping. 55edo is a [[zeta valley edo]], suggesting it does not approximate the harmonic series very well for its size.
 === Odd harmonics ===
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 == Notation ==
-=== Ups and downs notation ===
+=== Stein–Zimmermann–Gould notation ===
-edo can be notated with [[ups and downs]], spoken as up, dup, downsharp, sharp, upsharp etc. and down, dud, upflat etc. Note that dup is equivalent to dudsharp and dud is equivalent to dupflat.
+[[Stein–Zimmermann–Gould notation]] uses sharps and flats combined with quartertone accidentals and arrows:
+{{Sharpness-sharp4-szg}}
+=== Kite's ups and downs notation ===
+edo can also be notated with [[Kite's ups and downs notation|Kite's ups and downs]], spoken as up, dup, downsharp, sharp, upsharp etc. and down, dud, upflat etc. Note that dup is equivalent to dudsharp and dud is equivalent to dupflat.
 {{Ups and downs sharpness}}
-[[Alternative symbols for ups and downs notation]] uses sharps, flats, half- and sesquisharps, and half- and sesquiflats with arrows, borrowed from extended [[Helmholtz–Ellis notation]] and [[24edo #Stein–Zimmermann accidentals|Stein-Zimmerman accidental set]]:
-{{Sharpness-sharp4}}
 === Sagittal notation ===
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 {{Q-odd-limit intervals|55}}
 {{Q-odd-limit intervals|55.05|apx=val|header=none|tag=none|title=15-odd-limit intervals by 55d val mapping}}
+{{Q-odd-limit intervals|54.95|apx=val|header=none|tag=none|title=15-odd-limit intervals by 55f val mapping}}
+{{Q-odd-limit intervals|54.91|apx=val|header=none|tag=none|title=15-odd-limit intervals by 55cf val mapping}}
 == Regular temperament properties ==
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 * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfOt3nOp-f8 ''Prelude in E Minor "The Great"''] – rendered by [[Claudi Meneghin]] (2023)
 * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuIPIhSxUPs ''Prelude in E Minor "The Little"''] – rendered by Claudi Meneghin (2024)
+; {{W|John Bull (composer)|John Bull}}
+* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2d-540RuoM ''Fantasia «Ut Re Mi Fa Sol La»''] (late 1500s/early 1600s, from ''Fitzwilliam Virginal Book Vol.1 No.51'') – rendered by Claudi Meneghin (2026)
+; {{W|Louis Couperin}}
+* [https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bcgY3k-6rao ''La Piémontoise''] (1658?) – rendered by Claudi Meneghin (2026)
 ; {{W|Georg Frideric Handel}}
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 ; {{W|Scott Joplin}}
 * ''Maple Leaf Rag'' (1899) – arranged for harpsichord and rendered by [[Claudi Meneghin]] ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbhpuoIJgxk 2024 version]; [https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3Y9y9I6q1as 2026 version])
+; {{W|Mladen Milićević}}
+* [https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1BhIK0s2-vs "The Room" from ''The Room''] (2003) – covered by [[Bryan Deister]] (2026)
 ; {{W|Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart}}
-* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_AML6XW-2g ''Rondo alla Turca'' from the Piano Sonata No. 11, KV 331] (1778) – rendered by Francium (2023)
+* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_AML6XW-2g ''Rondo alla Turca'' from the Piano Sonata No. 11, K. 331] (1778) – rendered by Francium (2023)
-* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgRksdk6zyQ ''Fugue in G minor'', KV 401] (1782) – rendered by Francium (2023)
+* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgRksdk6zyQ ''Fugue in G minor'', K. 401] (1782) – rendered by Francium (2023)
-* [http://www.seraph.it/dep/int/AdagioKV540.mp3 ''Adagio in B minor'', KV 540] (1788) – rendered by Carlo Serafini (2011) ([http://www.seraph.it/blog_files/706c4662272db7703def4d57edfcb955-119.html blog entry])
+* [http://www.seraph.it/dep/int/AdagioKV540.mp3 ''Adagio in B minor'', K. 540] (1788) – rendered by Carlo Serafini (2011) ([http://www.seraph.it/blog_files/706c4662272db7703def4d57edfcb955-119.html blog entry])
-* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFjJCj2MBTM ''Allegro'' from the Piano Sonata No. 16, KV 545] (1788) – rendered by Francium (2023)
+* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFjJCj2MBTM ''Allegro'' from the Piano Sonata No. 16, K. 545] (1788) – rendered by Francium (2023)
-* ''Mozart's Gigue KV 574'' – rendered by [[Claudi Meneghin]]
+* ''Kleine Gigue in G'', K. 574 (1789) – rendered by [[Claudi Meneghin]]
 ** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p88MWgdio14&list=PLC6ZSKWKnVz0mOTLQkCUi9ydWGLpBP8gZ&index=2 Fortepiano rendition] (2025)
 ** [https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7jt-jzziDBg Harpsichord rendition] (2026)
+** [https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9J1DkS5UGzE Organ rendition] (2026)
 ; {{W|Keiichi Okabe}}