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[[http://www.io.com/~hmiller/midi/canon-golden.mid|An acoustic experience]] - Kornerup himself had no chance to have it - is contained in the [[Warped canon]] collection.
[[http://www.io.com/~hmiller/midi/canon-golden.mid|An acoustic experience]] - Kornerup himself had no chance to have it - is contained in the [[Warped canon]] collection.
[[@http://soonlabel.com/xenharmonic/archives/692|Bach's Ricercar a 6 ]] - Tuned into golden meantone by Claudi Meneghin
[[@http://soonlabel.com/xenharmonic/archives/692|Bach's Ricercar a 6 ]] - Tuned into golden meantone by [[Claudi Meneghin]]
==Additional reading==  
==Additional reading==  


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**Golden Meantone** is based on making the relation between the whole tone and diatonic semitone intervals be the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio|Golden Ratio]]

[[math]]
\varphi = \frac 1 2 (\sqrt{5}+1) \approx 1.61803\,39887\ldots\,
[[math]]

This makes the Golden fifth exactly

[[math]]
(8 - \varphi) / 11
[[math]]

octave, or

[[math]]
(9600 - 1200 \varphi) / 11
[[math]]

cents, approximately 696.214 cents.

Edo systems in a Fibonacci style recurrence beginning with 7 and 12 are successively better approximations to this ideal.

==Construction== 
If you use two neighboring numbers from the Fibonacci series 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21... you get the following approximations:
1, 1 -> [[7edo]]
1, 2 -> [[12edo]]
2, 3 -> [[19edo]]
3, 5 -> [[31edo]]
5, 8 -> [[50edo]]
8, 13 -> [[81edo]]
13, 21 -> [[131edo]]

==Evaluation== 

Graham Breed [[http://x31eq.com/meantone.htm|writes]]: //I think of this as the standard melodic meantone because the all these ratios are the same. It has the mellow sound of 1/4 comma, but does still have a character of its own. Some algorithms make this almost exactly the optimum 5-limit tuning. It's fairly good as a 7-limit tuning as well. Almost the optimum (according to me) for diminished sevenths. I toyed with this as a guitar tuning, but rejected it because 4:6:9 chords aren't quite good enough. That is, the poor fifth leads to a sludgy major ninth.//

==Listening== 

[[http://www.io.com/~hmiller/midi/canon-golden.mid|An acoustic experience]] - Kornerup himself had no chance to have it - is contained in the [[Warped canon]] collection.
[[@http://soonlabel.com/xenharmonic/archives/692|Bach's Ricercar a 6 ]] - Tuned into golden meantone by [[Claudi Meneghin]]
==Additional reading== 

[[@http://www.tonalsoft.com/enc/g/golden.aspx|Golden meantone - Tonalsoft encyclopedia]]

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<html><head><title>Golden Meantone</title></head><body><strong>Golden Meantone</strong> is based on making the relation between the whole tone and diatonic semitone intervals be the <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio" rel="nofollow">Golden Ratio</a><br />
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Edo systems in a Fibonacci style recurrence beginning with 7 and 12 are successively better approximations to this ideal.<br />
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 If you use two neighboring numbers from the Fibonacci series 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21... you get the following approximations:<br />
1, 1 -&gt; <a class="wiki_link" href="/7edo">7edo</a><br />
1, 2 -&gt; <a class="wiki_link" href="/12edo">12edo</a><br />
2, 3 -&gt; <a class="wiki_link" href="/19edo">19edo</a><br />
3, 5 -&gt; <a class="wiki_link" href="/31edo">31edo</a><br />
5, 8 -&gt; <a class="wiki_link" href="/50edo">50edo</a><br />
8, 13 -&gt; <a class="wiki_link" href="/81edo">81edo</a><br />
13, 21 -&gt; <a class="wiki_link" href="/131edo">131edo</a><br />
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Graham Breed <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://x31eq.com/meantone.htm" rel="nofollow">writes</a>: <em>I think of this as the standard melodic meantone because the all these ratios are the same. It has the mellow sound of 1/4 comma, but does still have a character of its own. Some algorithms make this almost exactly the optimum 5-limit tuning. It's fairly good as a 7-limit tuning as well. Almost the optimum (according to me) for diminished sevenths. I toyed with this as a guitar tuning, but rejected it because 4:6:9 chords aren't quite good enough. That is, the poor fifth leads to a sludgy major ninth.</em><br />
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<a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.io.com/~hmiller/midi/canon-golden.mid" rel="nofollow">An acoustic experience</a> - Kornerup himself had no chance to have it - is contained in the <a class="wiki_link" href="/Warped%20canon">Warped canon</a> collection.<br />
<a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://soonlabel.com/xenharmonic/archives/692" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bach's Ricercar a 6 </a> - Tuned into golden meantone by <a class="wiki_link" href="/Claudi%20Meneghin">Claudi Meneghin</a><br />
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