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Music: ''Mozart's Gigue KV 574, Arranged for Fortepiano (55-edo)'' – rendered by Claudi Meneghin: Add harpsichord version (2026)
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== Theory ==
== Theory ==
55edo is a [[The Riemann zeta function and tuning#Zeta valley edos|zeta valley edo]], so it does not approximate the harmonic series very well for its size. Despite this, it can be used as a [[meantone]] tuning, and is close to [[1/6-comma meantone]] (and is almost exactly 10/57-comma meantone). {{w|Georg Philipp Telemann|Telemann}} suggested it as a theoretical basis for analyzing the [[meantone intervals|intervals of meantone]]. {{w|Leopold Mozart|Leopold}} and {{w|Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Wolfgang Mozart}} recommended 55edo or something close to it, with a subset and further approximation used for keyboard instruments which (apart from an experimental instrument) did not have enough notes per octave to accommodate it in full.<ref>Chesnut, John (1977) ''Mozart's Teaching of Intonation'', '''Journal of the American Musicological Society''' Vol. 30, No. 2 (Summer, 1977), pp. 254-271 (Published By: University of California Press) [https://doi.org/10.2307/831219 doi.org/10.2307/831219], [http://www.jstor.org/stable/831219 https://www.jstor.org/stable/831219]</ref> It can also be used for [[Meantone_family#Mohajira|Mohajira]] and [[Meantone_family#Liese|Liese]] temperaments. It also supports an extremely sharp tuning of [[huygens|Huygens/undecimal meantone]] using the 55de [[val]], meaning that primes 7 and 11 are mapped very sharply to their second-best mapping.
55edo is a [[zeta valley edo]], so it does not approximate the harmonic series very well for its size. Despite this, it can be used as a [[meantone]] tuning, and is close to [[1/6-comma meantone]] (and is almost exactly 10/57-comma meantone). {{w|Georg Philipp Telemann|Telemann}} suggested it as a theoretical basis for analyzing the [[meantone intervals|intervals of meantone]]. {{w|Leopold Mozart|Leopold}} and {{w|Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Wolfgang Mozart}} recommended 55edo or something close to it, with a subset and further approximation used for keyboard instruments which (apart from an experimental instrument) did not have enough notes per octave to accommodate it in full.<ref>Chesnut, John (1977) ''Mozart's Teaching of Intonation'', '''Journal of the American Musicological Society''' Vol. 30, No. 2 (Summer, 1977), pp. 254-271 (Published By: University of California Press) [https://doi.org/10.2307/831219 doi.org/10.2307/831219], [http://www.jstor.org/stable/831219 https://www.jstor.org/stable/831219]</ref> It can also be used for [[mohajira]] and [[liese]] temperaments. It also supports an extremely sharp tuning of [[huygens|huygens/undecimal meantone]] using the 55de [[val]], meaning that primes 7 and 11 are mapped very sharply to their second-best mapping.


=== Odd harmonics ===
=== Odd harmonics ===
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=== Subsets and supersets ===
=== Subsets and supersets ===
Since 55 factors into {{factorization|55}}, 55edo contains [[5edo]] and [[11edo]] as its subsets.
Since 55 factors into primes as {{nowrap| 5 × 11 }}, 55edo contains [[5edo]] and [[11edo]] as its subsets.


== Intervals ==
== Intervals ==
{| class="wikitable center-1 right-2 left-3"
{| class="wikitable center-1 right-2 left-3"
|-
|-
! [[Degree|&#35;]]
! [[Degree|#]]
! [[Cent]]s
! [[Cent]]s
! Approximate ratios
! Approximate ratios
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{{Ups and downs sharpness}}
{{Ups and downs sharpness}}


[[Alternative symbols for ups and downs notation]] uses sharps, flats, half- and sesquisharps, and half- and sesquiflats with arrows, borrowed from extended [[Helmholtz–Ellis notation]] and [[24edo#Stein-Zimmerman Accidentals|Stein-Zimmerman accidental set]]:
[[Alternative symbols for ups and downs notation]] uses sharps, flats, half- and sesquisharps, and half- and sesquiflats with arrows, borrowed from extended [[Helmholtz–Ellis notation]] and [[24edo #Stein–Zimmermann accidentals|Stein-Zimmerman accidental set]]:
{{Sharpness-sharp4}}
{{Sharpness-sharp4}}


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| [[Twothirdtonic]] (55f)
| [[Twothirdtonic]] (55f)
|-
|-
|1
| 1
|8\55
| 8\55
|174.5
| 174.5
|[[10/9]]~[[11/10]]
| [[10/9]]~[[11/10]]
|[[Tetracot]] (55c)
| [[Tetracot]] (55c)
|-
|-
| 1
| 1
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| 501.8<br>(65.5)
| 501.8<br>(65.5)
| 4/3<br>(36/35)
| 4/3<br>(36/35)
| [[Hendecatonic]] (55)
| [[Hendecatonic (temperament)|Hendecatonic]] (55)
|}
|}
<nowiki/>* [[Normal forms #Equave-reduced-generator form|Octave-reduced form]], reduced to the first half-octave, and [[normal forms #Minimal-generator form|minimal form]] in parentheses if distinct
<nowiki/>* [[Normal forms #Equave-reduced-generator form|Octave-reduced form]], reduced to the first half-octave, and [[normal forms #Minimal-generator form|minimal form]] in parentheses if distinct


== Scales ==
== Scales ==
; Subsets of twothirdtonic[37]
; Subsets of Twothirdtonic[37]
* Undecimal otonal-like pentatonic: 17 8 7 12 11
* Undecimal otonal-like pentatonic: 17 8 7 12 11


; Subsets of hendecatonic[33]
; Subsets of Hendecatonic[33]
* Septimal pentatonic-like: 10 13 9 13 10
* Septimal pentatonic-like: 10 13 9 13 10
* Septimal minor blues-like: 13 10 4 5 13 10
* Septimal minor blues-like: 13 10 4 5 13 10
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; [[James Kukula]]
; [[James Kukula]]
* ''[https://app.box.com/s/8hq89cb3rqqkrhvkxgvqtppa255kcqrq?fbclid=IwY2xjawISjSlleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHcl5t8n_C7QUJqdEnwSaWBc5u3BpldmcAjhQQljsQIPl1qJ-zdCr9T8NMw_aem_Ez0m-Ls_ZqI0-c0Ld-28Yg 55edo Melted Syntonic]'' (2025)
* [https://app.box.com/s/8hq89cb3rqqkrhvkxgvqtppa255kcqrq?fbclid=IwY2xjawISjSlleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHcl5t8n_C7QUJqdEnwSaWBc5u3BpldmcAjhQQljsQIPl1qJ-zdCr9T8NMw_aem_Ez0m-Ls_ZqI0-c0Ld-28Yg ''55edo Melted Syntonic''] (2025)


; [[Budjarn Lambeth]]
; [[Budjarn Lambeth]]
* ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c5MtrZFNhA Improvisation One in 55edo]'' (2025)
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c5MtrZFNhA ''Improvisation One in 55edo''] (2025)
* ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggFGUn1Ya2A Improvisation Two in 55edo]'' (2025)
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggFGUn1Ya2A ''Improvisation Two in 55edo''] (2025)


; [[Claudi Meneghin]]
; [[Claudi Meneghin]]
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; [[Herman Miller]]
; [[Herman Miller]]
* ''[https://soundcloud.com/morphosyntax-1/road-trip-to-nowhere Road Trip to Nowhere]'' (2021)
* [https://soundcloud.com/morphosyntax-1/road-trip-to-nowhere ''Road Trip to Nowhere''] (2021)
* ''[https://soundcloud.com/morphosyntax-1/migration Migration]'' (2025)
* [https://soundcloud.com/morphosyntax-1/migration ''Migration''] (2025)


== External links ==
== External links ==