List of approaches to musical tuning: Difference between revisions

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The following approaches describe the subjective exploration process or its representations rather than its objective, audible result:
The following approaches describe the subjective exploration process or its representations rather than its objective, audible result:


* [[Contextual Xenharmonics]]
* [[Empirical]]: This is a form of hands-on field research as opposed to a form of acoustical or scale engineering, where tunings are specifically derived from listening and playing experiments carried out in the pitch continuum.
* [[Empirical]]: This is a form of hands-on field research as opposed to a form of acoustical or scale engineering, where tunings are specifically derived from listening and playing experiments carried out in the pitch continuum.
* [[Pretty Pictures]] that represent scales in one way or another
* [[Pretty Pictures]] that represent scales in one way or another
* [[Musical notation]] (pretty pictures for the purpose of writing music down)
* [[Musical notation]] (pretty pictures for the purpose of writing music down)
* [[Nominal-Accidental Chains]] A common approach to notation
* [[Nominal-Accidental Chains]] A common approach to notation
* [[Contextual Xenharmonics]]
* The notion of a [[Scalesmith]] who ''builds'' scales, with various methods, perhaps for single occasions
* The notion of a [[Scalesmith]] who ''builds'' scales, with various methods, perhaps for single occasions
** Mathematically based scales
** Mathematically based scales