Temperament naming: Difference between revisions
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===Catler:=== | ===Catler:=== | ||
Named for [[Jon Catler]]. | Named for [[Jon Catler]]. | ||
**Contrapyth:** | |||
Meaning: Its period makes its categories run competely against i.e. "contra" any Pythagorean notion of concordance and discordance, hence "contrapyth" | |||
===Dicot:=== | ===Dicot:=== | ||
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===Helmholtz:=== | ===Helmholtz:=== | ||
So named because Hermann von Helmholtz proposed 1/8-schisma flattened fifths. | So named because Hermann von Helmholtz proposed 1/8-schisma flattened fifths. | ||
**Italic:** | |||
Origin: 2012 | |||
Named from the race of the Neapolitan people (the namesake of the 8:6:5 triad in common pratctice tonality and the most consonant 6-3 triad) | |||
===Injera:=== | ===Injera:=== | ||
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Origin: Really really old | Origin: Really really old | ||
Meaning: Named so because it maps the major whole tone (9/8) and the minor whole tone (10/9) to the same interval, which is near the average of the two tones in ideal tunings. | Meaning: Named so because it maps the major whole tone (9/8) and the minor whole tone (10/9) to the same interval, which is near the average of the two tones in ideal tunings. | ||
**Middletown**: | |||
Origin: "2012" | |||
Meaning: Named so because its period dilates the mean (middle) tone temperament map into tempering out 64/63 | |||
===Migration:=== | ===Migration:=== | ||
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<!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:20:&lt;h3&gt; --><h3 id="toc10"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Catler:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:20 -->Catler:</h3> | <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:20:&lt;h3&gt; --><h3 id="toc10"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Catler:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:20 -->Catler:</h3> | ||
Named for <a class="wiki_link" href="/Jon%20Catler">Jon Catler</a>.<br /> | Named for <a class="wiki_link" href="/Jon%20Catler">Jon Catler</a>.<br /> | ||
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<strong>Contrapyth:</strong><br /> | |||
Meaning: Its period makes its categories run competely against i.e. &quot;contra&quot; any Pythagorean notion of concordance and discordance, hence &quot;contrapyth&quot;<br /> | |||
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<!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:22:&lt;h3&gt; --><h3 id="toc11"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Dicot:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:22 -->Dicot:</h3> | <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:22:&lt;h3&gt; --><h3 id="toc11"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Dicot:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:22 -->Dicot:</h3> | ||
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<!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:48:&lt;h3&gt; --><h3 id="toc24"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Helmholtz:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:48 -->Helmholtz:</h3> | <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:48:&lt;h3&gt; --><h3 id="toc24"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Helmholtz:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:48 -->Helmholtz:</h3> | ||
So named because Hermann von Helmholtz proposed 1/8-schisma flattened fifths.<br /> | So named because Hermann von Helmholtz proposed 1/8-schisma flattened fifths.<br /> | ||
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<strong>Italic:</strong><br /> | |||
Origin: 2012<br /> | |||
Named from the race of the Neapolitan people (the namesake of the 8:6:5 triad in common pratctice tonality and the most consonant 6-3 triad) <br /> | |||
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<!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:50:&lt;h3&gt; --><h3 id="toc25"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Injera:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:50 -->Injera:</h3> | <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:50:&lt;h3&gt; --><h3 id="toc25"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Injera:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:50 -->Injera:</h3> | ||
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Origin: Really really old<br /> | Origin: Really really old<br /> | ||
Meaning: Named so because it maps the major whole tone (9/8) and the minor whole tone (10/9) to the same interval, which is near the average of the two tones in ideal tunings.<br /> | Meaning: Named so because it maps the major whole tone (9/8) and the minor whole tone (10/9) to the same interval, which is near the average of the two tones in ideal tunings.<br /> | ||
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<strong>Middletown</strong>:<br /> | |||
Origin: &quot;2012&quot;<br /> | |||
Meaning: Named so because its period dilates the mean (middle) tone temperament map into tempering out 64/63<br /> | |||
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<!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:68:&lt;h3&gt; --><h3 id="toc34"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Migration:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:68 -->Migration:</h3> | <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:68:&lt;h3&gt; --><h3 id="toc34"><a name="Temperament Name Etymologies:--Migration:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:68 -->Migration:</h3> | ||