List of approaches to musical tuning: Difference between revisions
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* [[Regular temperament]]s (including linear temperaments): a centuries-old practice that has recently undergone a mathematical facelift, in which just intonation is selectively and regularly detuned in various ways, to better meet a variety of compositional desires | * [[Regular temperament]]s (including linear temperaments): a centuries-old practice that has recently undergone a mathematical facelift, in which just intonation is selectively and regularly detuned in various ways, to better meet a variety of compositional desires | ||
*[[MOS scale|Moment of symmetry (MOS)]]: Tunings (or better, scales) that use iterations of a generating interval, modulo a period interval, to produce scales of two step-sizes. | *[[MOS scale|Moment of symmetry (MOS)]]: Tunings (or better, scales) that use iterations of a generating interval, modulo a period interval, to produce scales of two step-sizes. | ||
*[[ | *[[Just intonation]]: The tuning of pitches so that their fundamental frequencies are related by ratios of whole numbers. An infinite world of numerous models: | ||
**[[Combination product sets]] | |||
** The [[harmonic series]] | |||
**[[Fokker blocks]] | |||
**[[Overtone scale]]s & [[primodality]] | |||
**[[Tonality diamond]]s | |||
** etc. | |||
*[[Timbral tuning]]: An approach similar to just intonation, but using an instrument's actual, non-harmonic overtone spectrum (e.g. the partials of a metal bar, drum head, or synthesized timbre) to relate frequencies instead of the harmonic series. | |||
* Musical traditions of indigenous, ancient, and/or non-Western cultures: | * Musical traditions of indigenous, ancient, and/or non-Western cultures: | ||
**[[African]] | **[[African]] | ||
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**[[Pre-Columbian South American Music|Pre-Columbian South American]] (e.g. Maya, Inca, Aztec..) | **[[Pre-Columbian South American Music|Pre-Columbian South American]] (e.g. Maya, Inca, Aztec..) | ||
**[[Wikipedia:Music of Thailand|Thai]] | **[[Wikipedia:Music of Thailand|Thai]] | ||
*[[Historical temperaments|Historical western temperaments]]: The (somewhat forgotten) use of [[Pythagorean]] and [[meantone]] tunings and [[well temperament]]s in Western common practice music. | |||
*[[Tetrachord|Tetrachordal scales]]: the use of divided fourths as building blocks for composition. | *[[Tetrachord|Tetrachordal scales]]: the use of divided fourths as building blocks for composition. | ||
*[[Isoharmonic chords]]: the use of chords with an equal harmonic difference between the pitches as building blocks for scales. | *[[Isoharmonic chords]]: the use of chords with an equal harmonic difference between the pitches as building blocks for scales. | ||
== Subjective processes == | == Subjective processes == | ||