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== Names for equave-agnostic mosses == | == Names for equave-agnostic mosses == | ||
Equave-agnostic names (proposed by Ganaram) are an extension to the equave-agnostic names provide by TAMNAMS. They are based on Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit numeral prefixes. Names for multi-period equave-agnostic mosses are not provided, as they would be repetitions of a smaller step pattern. | |||
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The motivation behind these names is from a desire to expand TAMNAMS-like names past the current note limit of 10 steps and, to a lesser extent, preserve former TAMNAMS names given to such mosses. | |||
The names for mos descendants are given the general terms of ''child'', ''grandchild'', ''great-grandchild'', and so on. Formerly, names based on the terms ''chromatic'' and ''enharmonic'' were prescribed, much in the spirit of ''m-chromatic'' and ''p-chromatic''. These terms, accompanied by single-letter prefixes, such as ''m-'' and ''p-'', and others, were used as bases for the descendants of any mos. However, these names were abandoned since the concept of ''chromatic'' did not generalize well outside the context of chromatic pairs, and the single-letter prefixes were considered temperament-suggestive. | |||
More unique names have been prescribed by others, but have limited use or acceptance by the xen community as a whole. | |||
The names ''m-chromatic'' and ''p-chromatic'', as they apply to 7L 5s and 5L 7s, are left unchanged, but can alternatively be described generally as ''child scales of diatonic'', or specifically, the ''child scale of soft diatonic'' and ''child scale of hard diatonic'' respectively. | |||