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==Prospective history==

During the French Revolution, the music of earlier French composers was abandoned in favour of a purer, "more French", decimal music. The French decimal time caught on and was successful in this timeline and they also decimalized music.

===Classical music===

During the French Revolution, the music of earlier French composers was abandoned in favour of a purer, "more French", decimal music. The French decimal time caught on and was successful in this timeline and they also decimalized music. The Institution for the Decimal Music in France then "decimalized" several Bach works, as well as Mozart and Haydn sonatas and symphonies though these never caught on.

The 10-note "French" system spread throughout the entirety of continental Europe within thirty years, with younger composers picking it up and older composers who were accustomed to the older 12edo-adjacent systems vehemently despising it.

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This attracted many Christian musicians and composers (Scott Mount was one of them). Mount wrote a Mass in 10edo, which was half-dicot-based and half-neopentatonicist, with a few small sections in the New Pythagorean style.

Hence, works commonly performed by symphony orchestras are from the Romantic onwards, with Classical-period works sparingly performed. Folk music, especially European, American, and African, is also commonly performed, with symphonic versions of these works composed.

===Jazz music===

Many African traditions (not sure which ones) developed equipentatonic systems. We take the fact that the French liked 10edo (what they call ‘metric tuning’) so much so that they even promoted it inside their colonies. This initially had more success than expected, due to a common arrangement by some Temitope Ayokunle who proposed the idea of two parallel balafons covering the entire 10edo gamut. This somehow eventually spread to America during the African slave trade and developed a new type of music (still called jazz), but Earth#10 jazz is more adventurous in the fact that they would regard each note of 10edo as equally important and thus they would regard the chromatic gamut as the scale itself. Equally interesting was the use of the [0 3 6 8] chord in 10edo as the main ‘primary’ chord in Earth#10 jazz music.

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''(Earth#12 equivalents are in brackets.)''

* Johan/John '''Nystrom''', inventor, engineer, and author, unlike in Earth#12, he is also a composer, popularised 16ed3 (John Nystrom)

* Frederick '''Quart''', 19th century British pianist and composer, one of the first composers for the new piano (Frederic Chopin)

* Gust '''Schilder''', 19th century Dutch composer of symphonic works (Gustav Mahler)

* William '''Shanks''', mathematician and composer, unlike in Earth#12, he is not only a mathematician (William Shanks)

* Arnold '''Schoenberg''', American composer (Arnold Schoenberg)

* Arnold '''Schoenberg''', American composer, invented serialism (Arnold Schoenberg)

* Bela '''Bartók''', Hungarian ethnomusicologist and xenharmonic composer, one of the earliest Earth#10 xenharmonicists (Bela Bartók)

* Scott '''Mount''', American composer, student of Arnold Schoenberg (Alban Berg)

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 ==Prospective history==
-During the French Revolution, the music of earlier French composers was abandoned in favour of a purer, "more French", decimal music. The French decimal time caught on and was successful in this timeline and they also decimalized music.
+===Classical music===
+During the French Revolution, the music of earlier French composers was abandoned in favour of a purer, "more French", decimal music. The French decimal time caught on and was successful in this timeline and they also decimalized music. The Institution for the Decimal Music in France then "decimalized" several Bach works, as well as Mozart and Haydn sonatas and symphonies though these never caught on.
 The 10-note "French" system spread throughout the entirety of continental Europe within thirty years, with younger composers picking it up and older composers who were accustomed to the older 12edo-adjacent systems vehemently despising it.
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 This attracted many Christian musicians and composers (Scott Mount was one of them). Mount wrote a Mass in 10edo, which was half-dicot-based and half-neopentatonicist, with a few small sections in the New Pythagorean style.
+Hence, works commonly performed by symphony orchestras are from the Romantic onwards, with Classical-period works sparingly performed. Folk music, especially European, American, and African, is also commonly performed, with symphonic versions of these works composed.
+===Jazz music===
 Many African traditions (not sure which ones) developed equipentatonic systems. We take the fact that the French liked 10edo (what they call ‘metric tuning’) so much so that they even promoted it inside their colonies. This initially had more success than expected, due to a common arrangement by some Temitope Ayokunle who proposed the idea of two parallel balafons covering the entire 10edo gamut. This somehow eventually spread to America during the African slave trade and developed a new type of music (still called jazz), but Earth#10 jazz is more adventurous in the fact that they would regard each note of 10edo as equally important and thus they would regard the chromatic gamut as the scale itself. Equally interesting was the use of the [0 3 6 8] chord in 10edo as the main ‘primary’ chord in Earth#10 jazz music.
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 ''(Earth#12 equivalents are in brackets.)''
 * Johan/John '''Nystrom''', inventor, engineer, and author, unlike in Earth#12, he is also a composer, popularised 16ed3 (John Nystrom)
+* Frederick '''Quart''', 19th century British pianist and composer, one of the first composers for the new piano (Frederic Chopin)
+* Gust '''Schilder''', 19th century Dutch composer of symphonic works (Gustav Mahler)
 * William '''Shanks''', mathematician and composer, unlike in Earth#12, he is not only a mathematician (William Shanks)
-* Arnold '''Schoenberg''', American composer (Arnold Schoenberg)
+* Arnold '''Schoenberg''', American composer, invented serialism (Arnold Schoenberg)
 * Bela '''Bartók''', Hungarian ethnomusicologist and xenharmonic composer, one of the earliest Earth#10 xenharmonicists (Bela Bartók)
 * Scott '''Mount''', American composer, student of Arnold Schoenberg (Alban Berg)