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[[User:Mousemambo|Mousemambo]]'s workbench for ideas and projects. Questions? Please use his [[User talk:Mousemambo|Talk page]] or contact him through XenHarmonic Alliance's [[Links#Discord server|Discord server]] #wiki channel.

[[User:Mousemambo|Mousemambo]]'s workbench for ideas and projects. Questions? Please use his [[User talk:Mousemambo|Talk page]] or contact him through XenHarmonic Alliance's [[Links#Discord server|Discord server]] #wiki channel (though he frequently takes weeks-long breaks from participating there).

== Created or substantially revised pages ==

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== Xenharmonic music: An introduction to 21st century tuning systems ==

This section outlines what could be followed as an introductory course for people interested in understanding, playing or composing xenharmonic music.

This course extends from a prerequisite of Music Theory 101, a ubiquitous first-semester college course whose material is also commonly taught to high school piano, guitar and jazz musicians. There are several free online textbooks teaching Music Theory 101 (recommendations need to be provided).

This introduction to xenharmonic music course begins by reintroducing some basic musicology terms but in a xenharmonic context. That may mean they have unusual definitions, or that they're explained in a way that points toward how they're understood and used in xenharmonic music.

*'''Foundations'''

**[[Glossary]]

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*'''Tuning systems and temperament'''

**[[Tuning system]]

**[[Just intonation]]

**[[Comma]]

**[[Temperament]]

***[[Just intonation]]

***[[Comma]]

***[[Temperament naming]]

***[[Equal temperament]]

***[[Regular temperament]]

***[[Equal-step tuning]]

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***[[Tempering out]]

***[[Temperament families and clans]]

**Articles

***[[Paul Erlich]]. [[:File:MiddlePath2015.pdf|A middle path between just intonation and the equal temperaments]].

*'''Tuning system analysis and design'''

**[[Equave]]

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**[[Val]]

**[[Tuning system design]]. A needed article explaining some of the (sometimes conflicting) qualities that make a tuning system attractive, e.g. many consonant intervals, attractive harmonies, easy modulation to other keys, similarity to existing popular tunings, etc.

**~~Monographs~~

**Articles

***[[Dave Keenan & Douglas Blumeyer's guide to RTT: introductions]]

***[[Mike's lectures on regular temperament theory]]

***[[Mike Sheiman's Very Easy Scale Building From The Harmonic Series Page]]

***[https://freethoughtblogs.com/atrivialknot/2022/06/07/xenharmonic-music-theory-part-1-perception-of-microtones/ Xenharmonic music theory part 1: Perception of microtones], part 2: [https://freethoughtblogs.com/atrivialknot/2022/06/13/xenharmonic-music-theory-part-2-dissonance-theory/ Dissonance Theory], part 3: [https://freethoughtblogs.com/atrivialknot/2022/06/16/xenharmonic-music-theory-part-3-tuning-theory/ Tuning theory]

***Siggy. A Trivial Knot (blog). [https://freethoughtblogs.com/atrivialknot/2022/06/07/xenharmonic-music-theory-part-1-perception-of-microtones/ Xenharmonic music theory part 1: Perception of microtones], part 2: [https://freethoughtblogs.com/atrivialknot/2022/06/13/xenharmonic-music-theory-part-2-dissonance-theory/ Dissonance Theory], part 3: [https://freethoughtblogs.com/atrivialknot/2022/06/16/xenharmonic-music-theory-part-3-tuning-theory/ Tuning theory]

***[[User:Aura/Aura's Music Theory: Introduction|Aura's Music Theory: Introduction]]

*'''Xenharmonic harmony'''

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**[[Consonance and dissonance]]

**[[Diatonic functional harmony]]

**[[Just intonation harmony]] (or [[Harmony in just intonation]]). This needed article would present an introduction to creating harmony in just intonation tunings. Some ideas to include...

**[[Just intonation harmony]] (or [[Harmony in just intonation]]). This needed article would present an introduction to creating harmony in just intonation (JI) tunings. It introduces ideas and strategies for harmony that also apply to other uneven tunings, and provides a foundation for understanding more extended xenharmonic harmonization. Some ideas to include...

***Historically, pure tunings were understood to mostly support only limited dyadic harmony, because few intervals in any purely JI tuning were considered acceptably consonant. Interval table analysis of an example JI tuning reveals how many of that tunings' dyadic intervals are unusable for harmony. Consonant triads are very rare in JI tunings.

***Historically, pure tunings were understood to mostly support only limited dyadic harmony, because few intervals in any purely JI tuning were considered acceptably consonant. Interval table analysis of an example JI tuning reveals how many of that tunings' dyadic intervals are unusable for harmony. Consonant triads are traditionally very rare in JI tunings.

***However, many traditional cultural musics successfully integrated dyadic harmony, e.g. ancient Greek music and its early European descendants, traditional classical Chinese music, and some traditional African music.

***Melodic arpeggiation and the introduction of ostinato in accompaniment provided an opening to harmonic ideas without the more glaring dissonance of ~~simultaneous tones~~.

***Melodic arpeggiation, and the introduction of ostinato in early basso continuo accompaniment, provided an opening to harmonic ideas in early European JI music, without the more glaring dissonance of notes sounded simultaneously.

***~~The~~ development of [[~~wikipedia~~:~~Meantone_temperament~~|meantone temperaments]] in European music expanded the number of acceptably consonant intervals ([[wikipedia:List_of_meantone_intervals|List of meantone intervals]]), while listeners became more accepting of less pure intervals as consonant (most extremely in [[~~wikipedia~~:~~Emancipation_of_the_dissonance~~|Emancipation of the dissonance]]), allowing expansion and exploration of triadic and larger harmonies.

***Later, the development of [[Wikipedia:Meantone temperament|meantone temperaments]] in European music expanded the number of acceptably consonant intervals ([[wikipedia:List_of_meantone_intervals|List of meantone intervals]]), while listeners also became more accepting of less pure intervals as consonant (most extremely in [[Wikipedia:Emancipation of the dissonance|Emancipation of the dissonance]]), allowing expansion and exploration of triadic and larger harmonies.

**[[Dyadic chord]]

**Harmony in Specific Tunings

***[[Blacksmith temperament modal harmony (in 15edo)]]

***[[Harmony of 23edo]]

**~~Monographs~~

**Articles

***[[User:Aura/Aura's Ideas on Functional Harmony|Aura's Ideas on Functional Harmony]]‎‎

***[[User:FloraC/Analysis on the 13-limit just intonation space: episode ii#Chapter VI. Overview on Functional Harmony|FloraC's Overview on Functional Harmony]]

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Here is an outline of some ideas about how to make the Xenharmonic Wiki more useful to musicians.

* '''Introduction to good nonfiction writing, with an emphasis on exposition.'''

* '''Introduction to good nonfiction writing (with an emphasis on exposition)'''

** Why are you writing?

** What is "good" in good nonfiction writing?

*** Clarity of purpose: Strong focus on the idea being presented.

*** Clarity of statement: Intelligibility in the contexts of reader and meaning.

*** Clarity of structure: ~~Nonfiction~~ narrative arc.

*** Clarity of structure: A nonfiction narrative arc.

** How to write an effective nonfiction paragraph or paragraphic section.

** How to write an effective nonfiction paragraph or "paragraphic" section (a section functioning like a paragraph).

*** ~~Paragraphs present~~ one idea.

*** Each paragraph presents one idea.

*** Paragraphs include:

**** Always, an initial statement of the idea.

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* '''Every Xenharmonic Wiki article should include...'''

** An introductory paragraph or two that:

*** Is accessible to ~~most~~ musicians with at least an introduction to music theory ~~(i.e~~. college Music Theory 101).

*** Is accessible to the Wiki's yet-to-be-officially defined target audience: musicians with at least a basic introduction to music theory. This can be defined as first-semester, college Music Theory 101, but is also commonly introduced to high-school piano, guitar, and jazz musicians.

*** Provides links to beginner and intermediate-level articles on music theory as needed.

*** Presents the purpose of the article in a way that will be understood by someone completely new to the article's concept, with links to articles that are necessary prerequisites.

*** Clearly places the article's topic into the context of music.

*** Regardless of the topic (advanced or not), includes absolutely no math theory terminology beyond high school level, unless it is very commonly used in Xenharmonic music discussions and links to beginner-level articles are provided. If no such article exists, omit that terminology from the introduction, and present it later with a red link to create that article.

*** Presents the purpose of the article in a way that will be understood by someone completely new to the article's concept, with links to articles about concepts that are necessary prerequisites.

** Sections that divide the article into different depths of understanding, i.e. that require the reader to have less or more preexisting understandings. More advanced understandings belong in sections later in the article. This is true even ~~of more~~ advanced articles, because in effective narrative nonfiction writing there is always a progression of understanding.

*** Regardless of the topic (advanced or not), includes absolutely no math theory terminology beyond high school level, unless it is very commonly used in Xenharmonic music discussions, and links to/toward beginner-level articles are provided. If no such article exists, omit that terminology from the introduction, and present it later with a red link to create that article. There are certainly also alternative ways to address the serious Xenharmonic Wiki problem of inaccessible articles that understandably frighten off musicians without a higher math degree. There are occasional paired articles, one for beginners (e.g. [[Mapping]]) and one for advanced readers (e.g. [[Temperament mapping matrices]]). This can be an effective approach but requires substantially more work.

** Sections that divide the article into different depths of understanding, i.e. that require the reader to have less or more preexisting understandings. More advanced understandings belong in sections later in the article. This is true even formore advanced articles, because in effective narrative nonfiction writing there is always a progression of understanding.

** No list or table without an effective explanation of its contents.

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***[[Special:UnusedTemplates|Unused templates]]

***Might be especially useful: [[Template:Mbox]], [[Template:Stub]], [[Template:Wikipedia]], [[Template:ScaleWorkshop]], [[Template:Todo]] (and see [[:Category:Todo]] for already defined ToDo tasks)

**Wikipedia link format. :wikipedia:<articleNameWithUnderlinesForSpaces>

**Xenharmonic Wiki file format. :File:<filename>

*Wiki health

**[[:Category:Xenharmonic Wiki]]

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-[[User:Mousemambo|Mousemambo]]'s workbench for ideas and projects. Questions? Please use his [[User talk:Mousemambo|Talk page]] or contact him through XenHarmonic Alliance's [[Links#Discord server|Discord server]] #wiki channel.
+[[User:Mousemambo|Mousemambo]]'s workbench for ideas and projects. Questions? Please use his [[User talk:Mousemambo|Talk page]] or contact him through XenHarmonic Alliance's [[Links#Discord server|Discord server]] #wiki channel (though he frequently takes weeks-long breaks from participating there).
 == Created or substantially revised pages ==
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 == Xenharmonic music: An introduction to 21st century tuning systems ==
+This section outlines what could be followed as an introductory course for people interested in understanding, playing or composing xenharmonic music.
+This course extends from a prerequisite of Music Theory 101, a ubiquitous first-semester college course whose material is also commonly taught to high school piano, guitar and jazz musicians. There are several free online textbooks teaching Music Theory 101 (recommendations need to be provided).
+This introduction to xenharmonic music course begins by reintroducing some basic musicology terms but in a xenharmonic context. That may mean they have unusual definitions, or that they're explained in a way that points toward how they're understood and used in xenharmonic music.
 *'''Foundations'''
 **[[Glossary]]
@@ Line 96: / Line 100: @@
 *'''Tuning systems and temperament'''
 **[[Tuning system]]
+**[[Just intonation]]
+**[[Comma]]
 **[[Temperament]]
-***[[Just intonation]]
-***[[Comma]]
 ***[[Temperament naming]]
+***[[Equal temperament]]
 ***[[Regular temperament]]
 ***[[Equal-step tuning]]
@@ Line 105: / Line 110: @@
 ***[[Tempering out]]
 ***[[Temperament families and clans]]
+**Articles
+***[[Paul Erlich]]. [[:File:MiddlePath2015.pdf|A middle path between just intonation and the equal temperaments]].
 *'''Tuning system analysis and design'''
 **[[Equave]]
@@ Line 111: / Line 118: @@
 **[[Val]]
 **[[Tuning system design]]. A needed article explaining some of the (sometimes conflicting) qualities that make a tuning system attractive, e.g. many consonant intervals, attractive harmonies, easy modulation to other keys, similarity to existing popular tunings, etc.
-**Monographs
+**Articles
 ***[[Dave Keenan & Douglas Blumeyer's guide to RTT: introductions]]
 ***[[Mike's lectures on regular temperament theory]]
 ***[[Mike Sheiman's Very Easy Scale Building From The Harmonic Series Page]]
-***[https://freethoughtblogs.com/atrivialknot/2022/06/07/xenharmonic-music-theory-part-1-perception-of-microtones/ Xenharmonic music theory part 1: Perception of microtones], part 2: [https://freethoughtblogs.com/atrivialknot/2022/06/13/xenharmonic-music-theory-part-2-dissonance-theory/ Dissonance Theory], part 3: [https://freethoughtblogs.com/atrivialknot/2022/06/16/xenharmonic-music-theory-part-3-tuning-theory/ Tuning theory]
+***Siggy. A Trivial Knot (blog). [https://freethoughtblogs.com/atrivialknot/2022/06/07/xenharmonic-music-theory-part-1-perception-of-microtones/ Xenharmonic music theory part 1: Perception of microtones], part 2: [https://freethoughtblogs.com/atrivialknot/2022/06/13/xenharmonic-music-theory-part-2-dissonance-theory/ Dissonance Theory], part 3: [https://freethoughtblogs.com/atrivialknot/2022/06/16/xenharmonic-music-theory-part-3-tuning-theory/ Tuning theory]
 ***[[User:Aura/Aura's Music Theory: Introduction|Aura's Music Theory: Introduction]]
 *'''Xenharmonic harmony'''
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 **[[Consonance and dissonance]]
 **[[Diatonic functional harmony]]
-**[[Just intonation harmony]] (or [[Harmony in just intonation]]). This needed article would present an introduction to creating harmony in just intonation tunings. Some ideas to include...
+**[[Just intonation harmony]] (or [[Harmony in just intonation]]). This needed article would present an introduction to creating harmony in just intonation (JI) tunings. It introduces ideas and strategies for harmony that also apply to other uneven tunings, and provides a foundation for understanding more extended xenharmonic harmonization. Some ideas to include...
-***Historically, pure tunings were understood to mostly support only limited dyadic harmony, because few intervals in any purely JI tuning were considered acceptably consonant. Interval table analysis of an example JI tuning reveals how many of that tunings' dyadic intervals are unusable for harmony. Consonant triads are very rare in JI tunings.
+***Historically, pure tunings were understood to mostly support only limited dyadic harmony, because few intervals in any purely JI tuning were considered acceptably consonant. Interval table analysis of an example JI tuning reveals how many of that tunings' dyadic intervals are unusable for harmony. Consonant triads are traditionally very rare in JI tunings.
 ***However, many traditional cultural musics successfully integrated dyadic harmony, e.g. ancient Greek music and its early European descendants, traditional classical Chinese music, and some traditional African music.
-***Melodic arpeggiation and the introduction of ostinato in accompaniment provided an opening to harmonic ideas without the more glaring dissonance of simultaneous tones.
+***Melodic arpeggiation, and the introduction of ostinato in early basso continuo accompaniment, provided an opening to harmonic ideas in early European JI music, without the more glaring dissonance of notes sounded simultaneously.
-***The development of [[wikipedia:Meantone_temperament|meantone temperaments]] in European music expanded the number of acceptably consonant intervals ([[wikipedia:List_of_meantone_intervals|List of meantone intervals]]), while listeners became more accepting of less pure intervals as consonant (most extremely in [[wikipedia:Emancipation_of_the_dissonance|Emancipation of the dissonance]]), allowing expansion and exploration of triadic and larger harmonies.
+***Later, the development of [[Wikipedia:Meantone temperament|meantone temperaments]] in European music expanded the number of acceptably consonant intervals ([[wikipedia:List_of_meantone_intervals|List of meantone intervals]]), while listeners also became more accepting of less pure intervals as consonant (most extremely in [[Wikipedia:Emancipation of the dissonance|Emancipation of the dissonance]]), allowing expansion and exploration of triadic and larger harmonies.
 **[[Dyadic chord]]
 **Harmony in Specific Tunings
 ***[[Blacksmith temperament modal harmony (in 15edo)]]
 ***[[Harmony of 23edo]]
-**Monographs
+**Articles
 ***[[User:Aura/Aura's Ideas on Functional Harmony|Aura's Ideas on Functional Harmony]]‎‎
 ***[[User:FloraC/Analysis on the 13-limit just intonation space: episode ii#Chapter VI. Overview on Functional Harmony|FloraC's Overview on Functional Harmony]]
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 Here is an outline of some ideas about how to make the Xenharmonic Wiki more useful to musicians.
-* '''Introduction to good nonfiction writing, with an emphasis on exposition.'''
+* '''Introduction to good nonfiction writing (with an emphasis on exposition)'''
 ** Why are you writing?
 ** What is "good" in good nonfiction writing?
 *** Clarity of purpose: Strong focus on the idea being presented.
 *** Clarity of statement: Intelligibility in the contexts of reader and meaning.
-*** Clarity of structure: Nonfiction narrative arc.
+*** Clarity of structure: A nonfiction narrative arc.
-** How to write an effective nonfiction paragraph or paragraphic section.
+** How to write an effective nonfiction paragraph or "paragraphic" section (a section functioning like a paragraph).
-*** Paragraphs present one idea.
+*** Each paragraph presents one idea.
 *** Paragraphs include:
 **** Always, an initial statement of the idea.
@@ Line 164: / Line 171: @@
 * '''Every Xenharmonic Wiki article should include...'''
 ** An introductory paragraph or two that:
-*** Is accessible to most musicians with at least an introduction to music theory (i.e. college Music Theory 101).
+*** Is accessible to the Wiki's yet-to-be-officially defined target audience: musicians with at least a basic introduction to music theory. This can be defined as first-semester, college Music Theory 101, but is also commonly introduced to high-school piano, guitar, and jazz musicians.
 *** Provides links to beginner and intermediate-level articles on music theory as needed.
-*** Presents the purpose of the article in a way that will be understood by someone completely new to the article's concept, with links to articles that are necessary prerequisites.
+*** Clearly places the article's topic into the context of music.
-*** Regardless of the topic (advanced or not), includes absolutely no math theory terminology beyond high school level, unless it is very commonly used in Xenharmonic music discussions and links to beginner-level articles are provided. If no such article exists, omit that terminology from the introduction, and present it later with a red link to create that article.
+*** Presents the purpose of the article in a way that will be understood by someone completely new to the article's concept, with links to articles about concepts that are necessary prerequisites.
-** Sections that divide the article into different depths of understanding, i.e. that require the reader to have less or more preexisting understandings. More advanced understandings belong in sections later in the article. This is true even of more advanced articles, because in effective narrative nonfiction writing there is always a progression of understanding.
+*** Regardless of the topic (advanced or not), includes absolutely no math theory terminology beyond high school level, unless it is very commonly used in Xenharmonic music discussions, and links to/toward beginner-level articles are provided. If no such article exists, omit that terminology from the introduction, and present it later with a red link to create that article. There are certainly also alternative ways to address the serious Xenharmonic Wiki problem of inaccessible articles that understandably frighten off musicians without a higher math degree. There are occasional paired articles, one for beginners (e.g. [[Mapping]]) and one for advanced readers (e.g. [[Temperament mapping matrices]]). This can be an effective approach but requires substantially more work.
+** Sections that divide the article into different depths of understanding, i.e. that require the reader to have less or more preexisting understandings. More advanced understandings belong in sections later in the article. This is true even formore advanced articles, because in effective narrative nonfiction writing there is always a progression of understanding.
 ** No list or table without an effective explanation of its contents.
@@ Line 199: / Line 207: @@
 ***[[Special:UnusedTemplates|Unused templates]]
 ***Might be especially useful: [[Template:Mbox]], [[Template:Stub]], [[Template:Wikipedia]], [[Template:ScaleWorkshop]], [[Template:Todo]] (and see [[:Category:Todo]] for already defined ToDo tasks)
+**Wikipedia link format. :wikipedia:<articleNameWithUnderlinesForSpaces>
+**Xenharmonic Wiki file format. :File:<filename>
 *Wiki health
 **[[:Category:Xenharmonic Wiki]]