Talk:Sagittal notation: Difference between revisions

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:That's a good point. You can find information about the primary role (of which there is exactly one) and secondary roles (of which there may be zero or more) for Sagittal symbols, beginning in the last paragraph on page 8 here: https://sagittal.org/sagittal.pdf and here: https://sagittal.org/whatpitch.txt (please ignore the linked spreadsheet which is out of date). The choice as to which of several nearby commas is assigned to the primary role of a symbol depends on the simplicity of the ''pitch ratio being notated'', not the comma used to notate it relative to the Pythagorean backbone. Of course a single comma can notate many different pitch ratios depending on the nominal and sharps or flats it is used with. So we are really considering the cumulative popularity of all the ratios notatable with that comma. You can read more about that here: [[N2D3P9]]. [[User:Dave Keenan|Dave Keenan]] ([[User talk:Dave Keenan|talk]]) 03:18, 18 October 2025 (UTC)

:I should also mention that a comma which is a secondary role for some unaccented sagittal symbol is almost always the primary role for an accented symbol having the previous symbol as its core. Or putting it another way, the secondary roles for an unaccented symbol (in the Spartan, Athenian or Promethean subsets) are usually (but not always) the primary roles of all the valid accented versions of that symbol (in their Herculean or Olympian supersets). Also the primary role can, in most cases, be thought of as the ''default'' meaning of a symbol in the absence of further information such as what EDO are we notating. [[User:Dave Keenan|Dave Keenan]] ([[User talk:Dave Keenan|talk]]) 03:35, 18 October 2025 (UTC)

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 :That's a good point. You can find information about the primary role (of which there is exactly one) and secondary roles (of which there may be zero or more) for Sagittal symbols, beginning in the last paragraph on page 8 here: https://sagittal.org/sagittal.pdf and here: https://sagittal.org/whatpitch.txt (please ignore the linked spreadsheet which is out of date). The choice as to which of several nearby commas is assigned to the primary role of a symbol depends on the simplicity of the ''pitch ratio being notated'', not the comma used to notate it relative to the Pythagorean backbone. Of course a single comma can notate many different pitch ratios depending on the nominal and sharps or flats it is used with. So we are really considering the cumulative popularity of all the ratios notatable with that comma. You can read more about that here: [[N2D3P9]]. [[User:Dave Keenan|Dave Keenan]] ([[User talk:Dave Keenan|talk]]) 03:18, 18 October 2025 (UTC)
+:I should also mention that a comma which is a secondary role for some unaccented sagittal symbol is almost always the primary role for an accented symbol having the previous symbol as its core. Or putting it another way, the secondary roles for an unaccented symbol (in the Spartan, Athenian or Promethean subsets) are usually (but not always) the primary roles of all the valid accented versions of that symbol (in their Herculean or Olympian supersets). Also the primary role can, in most cases, be thought of as the ''default'' meaning of a symbol in the absence of further information such as what EDO are we notating. [[User:Dave Keenan|Dave Keenan]] ([[User talk:Dave Keenan|talk]]) 03:35, 18 October 2025 (UTC)
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