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Rather than simply denoting one of a list of rank-2 temperaments, the phrase "cluster scale" is also associated with a compositional philosophy. It is often said that temperaments such as slendric are melodically "bad" or have "bad MOS structure", because some MOS (in this case slendric[5]) is "too equal" and the next higher MOSes are "too unequal". But this can be thought of as a feature rather than a bug. Rather than forcing them into the MOS framework, one can think of cluster scales as having two hierarchical levels of melodic structure: the "step" (a step of the quasi-equal MOS), and the "chroma", and a chroma is so much smaller than a step that the steps seldom go out of order no matter how many chromas are involved. | Rather than simply denoting one of a list of rank-2 temperaments, the phrase "cluster scale" is also associated with a compositional philosophy. It is often said that temperaments such as slendric are melodically "bad" or have "bad MOS structure", because some MOS (in this case slendric[5]) is "too equal" and the next higher MOSes are "too unequal". But this can be thought of as a feature rather than a bug. Rather than forcing them into the MOS framework, one can think of cluster scales as having two hierarchical levels of melodic structure: the "step" (a step of the quasi-equal MOS), and the "chroma", and a chroma is so much smaller than a step that the steps seldom go out of order no matter how many chromas are involved. | ||
== Examples of cluster temperaments | == Examples of cluster temperaments == | ||
=== Slendric === | === Slendric === | ||