List of approaches to musical tuning: Difference between revisions
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*[[Generalized_overtone_tuning|Generalized overtone tuning]]: An approach similar to just intonation, but using an instrument's actual, non-harmonic overtone spectrum (e.g the partials of a metal bar, drum head, or synthesized timbre) to relate frequencies instead of the harmonic series. | *[[Generalized_overtone_tuning|Generalized overtone tuning]]: An approach similar to just intonation, but using an instrument's actual, non-harmonic overtone spectrum (e.g the partials of a metal bar, drum head, or synthesized timbre) to relate frequencies instead of the harmonic series. | ||
*[[Equal_Temperaments|Equal tuning]]: Tunings that use a single interval (and combinations thereof) to form a subtle monoculture of intervals. | *[[Equal_Temperaments|Equal tuning]]: Tunings that use a single interval (and combinations thereof) to form a subtle monoculture of intervals. | ||
*[[Historical_Western_Temperaments|Historical Western Temperaments]]: The (somewhat forgotten) use of [[Pythagorean]] and [[Meantone|meantone tunings]] and [[Circulating_Temperaments|circulating temperaments]] in Western common practice music. | |||
*Musical traditions of indigenous, ancient, and/or non-Western cultures | *Musical traditions of indigenous, ancient, and/or non-Western cultures | ||
**[[Arabic,_Turkish,_Persian|Arabic, Turkish, Persian]] | |||
**[[Indian|Indian]] (North, South) | **[[Indian|Indian]] (North, South) | ||
**[[African|African]] | **[[African|African]] | ||
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**[[Pre-Columbian_South_American_Music|Pre-Columbian South American]] (e.g. Maya, Inca, Aztec..) | **[[Pre-Columbian_South_American_Music|Pre-Columbian South American]] (e.g. Maya, Inca, Aztec..) | ||
**[[Indonesian|Indonesian]] (Java, Bali) | **[[Indonesian|Indonesian]] (Java, Bali) | ||
**[[wikipedia:Musical_system_of_ancient_Greece|Ancient Greek]], [http://orthodoxwiki.org/Byzantine_Chant#The_scale Byzantine] | |||
**[[Georgian|Georgian]] | **[[Georgian|Georgian]] | ||
*[[Regular_Temperaments|Regular Temperaments]]: (including Linear Temperaments): a centuries-old practice that has recently undergone a mathematical facelift, in which Just Intonation is selectively and regularly detuned in various ways, to better meet a variety of compositional desires | *[[Regular_Temperaments|Regular Temperaments]]: (including Linear Temperaments): a centuries-old practice that has recently undergone a mathematical facelift, in which Just Intonation is selectively and regularly detuned in various ways, to better meet a variety of compositional desires | ||
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[[Category:theory]] | [[Category:theory]] | ||
[[Category:tuning]] | [[Category:tuning]] | ||
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