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==Emil Schönbaum==

This parallel world is named after Emil Schönbaum, a fictional violinist who started learning from Leopold Mozart, but the latter was on vacation when Schönbaum was learning the harmonic minor scale, so Schönbaum spontaneously "fixed" the augmented second, an interval quality which he hadn't previously learned, by shrinking it and widening the major seconds in the scale such that they ended up the same width. This made an LsLLsLs scale ("Schönbaum Minor") which Leopold Mozart was very much impressed by, and he along with fictional mathematician (name) developed 11edo as a formalization and completion of this scale. The idea behind this is that Leopold Mozart's method already involved 55edo, in which a semitone was 1\11.

== Schönbaumian Notation and Keys ==

One of the first notation proposals in Schönbaumia for 11edo was by Frank Wheat, proposing ABCDEFΓ as the nominals (Γ is the Greek letter gamma). The accidentals are A#/Bb, C#/Db, D#/Eb and F#/Γb.

== Schönbaumian Tonality ==

The Schönbaum Minor scale has two chords which are called ''skeletal chords'' and serve as tonics. In the key of A, they're A-C-E and C-E-Γ. Note that unlike the major and minor chords in conventional tonality, skeletal chords are inversions of each other, and modern theorists and teachers in Schönbaumia speak of ''the'' skeletal chord as the one with the shape 0-4-7. Thus the A minor scale has skeletal chords built on E and C.

The main source of ''tension and resolution'' in Schönbaumian tonality is provided by the ''suspended'' chord, B-D-F, often expanded to B-D-F-A or Γ-B-D-F.

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 ==Emil Schönbaum==
 This parallel world is named after Emil Schönbaum, a fictional violinist who started learning from Leopold Mozart, but the latter was on vacation when Schönbaum was learning the harmonic minor scale, so Schönbaum spontaneously "fixed" the augmented second, an interval quality which he hadn't previously learned, by shrinking it and widening the major seconds in the scale such that they ended up the same width. This made an LsLLsLs scale ("Schönbaum Minor") which Leopold Mozart was very much impressed by, and he along with fictional mathematician (name) developed 11edo as a formalization and completion of this scale. The idea behind this is that Leopold Mozart's method already involved 55edo, in which a semitone was 1\11.
+== Schönbaumian Notation and Keys ==
+One of the first notation proposals in Schönbaumia for 11edo was by Frank Wheat, proposing ABCDEFΓ as the nominals (Γ is the Greek letter gamma). The accidentals are A#/Bb, C#/Db, D#/Eb and F#/Γb.
+== Schönbaumian Tonality ==
+The Schönbaum Minor scale has two chords which are called ''skeletal chords'' and serve as tonics. In the key of A, they're A-C-E and C-E-Γ. Note that unlike the major and minor chords in conventional tonality, skeletal chords are inversions of each other, and modern theorists and teachers in Schönbaumia speak of ''the'' skeletal chord as the one with the shape 0-4-7. Thus the A minor scale has skeletal chords built on E and C.
+The main source of ''tension and resolution'' in Schönbaumian tonality is provided by the ''suspended'' chord, B-D-F, often expanded to B-D-F-A or Γ-B-D-F.