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== Innate comma chord ==
== Innate comma chord ==
An '''innate comma chord''', proposed by [[Kite Giedraitis]], is the type of chord that cannot be mapped to just intonation in a given prime limit and odd limit. However, instead of specifying the targeted JI ratios as in an [[#Essentially_tempered_dyadic_chord|essentially tempered chord]], an innate comma chord describes only the general chord shape: the [[mapped interval]] representations or the [[interval span|sizes]] of its constituent intervals.  
An '''innate comma chord''', proposed by [[Kite Giedraitis]], is the type of chord that cannot be mapped to just intonation in a given prime limit and odd limit. However, instead of specifying the targeted JI ratios as in an [[#Essentially tempered dyadic chord|essentially tempered chord]], an innate comma chord describes only the general chord shape: the [[mapped interval]] representations or the [[interval span|sizes]] of its constituent intervals.  


For example, the [[augmented triad]] in 5-limit JI is an innate comma chord below the 25-odd-limit, because it is impossible to tune all three major thirds (in the four-note chord doubling the root up an octave) to [[5/4]] or any other 5-limit interval with odd limit below 25: the innate comma here is 128/125 (41¢). In practice, it might be sung or played justly but with a large odd limit (containing [[wolf interval]]s): for example, 1–5/4–8/5–2, or 1–5/4–25/16–2 (or even 1–5/4–25/16–125/64). Or it might be tempered, e.g. in 12edo as 0¢–400¢–800¢–1200¢. In 7-limit JI, one of the major thirds can be tuned to 9/7, reducing the innate comma to 225/224 (only 8¢). This comma can be distributed among the three thirds, tempering each by only a few cents, which is usually close enough to be acceptable. In 11-limit JI, the augmented chord is not an innate comma chord, because it can be tuned justly as 7:9:11:14, a low enough odd limit to "ring". (However, it is debatable whether this chord qualifies as an augmented triad, because the middle [[11/9]] interval is a neutral third rather than a major third.)
For example, the [[augmented triad]] in 5-limit JI is an innate comma chord below the 25-odd-limit, because it is impossible to tune all three major thirds (in the four-note chord doubling the root up an octave) to [[5/4]] or any other 5-limit interval with odd limit below 25: the innate comma here is 128/125 (41¢). In practice, it might be sung or played justly but with a large odd limit (containing [[wolf interval]]s): for example, 1–5/4–8/5–2, or 1–5/4–25/16–2 (or even 1–5/4–25/16–125/64). Or it might be tempered, e.g. in 12edo as 0¢–400¢–800¢–1200¢. In 7-limit JI, one of the major thirds can be tuned to 9/7, reducing the innate comma to 225/224 (only 8¢). This comma can be distributed among the three thirds, tempering each by only a few cents, which is usually close enough to be acceptable. In 11-limit JI, the augmented chord is not an innate comma chord, because it can be tuned justly as 7:9:11:14, a low enough odd limit to "ring". (However, it is debatable whether this chord qualifies as an augmented triad, because the middle [[11/9]] interval is a neutral third rather than a major third.)
Another example is a [[Jubilismic chords|jubilismic tetrad]], 1–5/4–7/5–7/4–2 (with steps of 5/4, 8/7, 5/4, 8/7), tempered by [[50/49]], which is an innate comma chord in the 7-odd-limit, with impossibility to tune all two ~5/4s and two ~8/7s (or equate ~7/5 with ~10/7) justly with pure octaves. Other jubilismic tetrads are also innate comma chords: 1–6/5–7/5–12/7–2 (with steps of 6/5, 7/6, 6/5, 7/6) and 1–9/7–7/5–9/5–2 (9-odd-limit, with steps of 9/7, 10/9, 9/7, 10/9).


== Anomalous saturated suspension ==
== Anomalous saturated suspension ==
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! Chords !! Associated temperament !! Associated commas
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| [[Archytas chords]] || [[Archytas]] || [[64/63]]
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| [[Diminished seventh chord]] || [[Diminished (temperament)|Diminished]] || [[36/35]], [[50/49]]
| [[Diminished seventh chord]] || [[Diminished (temperament)|Diminished]] || [[36/35]], [[50/49]]
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| [[Jubilismic chords]] || [[Jubilismic]] || [[50/49]]
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| [[Augmented triad]] || [[Augmented (temperament)|Augmented]] || [[128/125]]
| [[Augmented triad]] || [[Augmented (temperament)|Augmented]] || [[128/125]]