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: For 11-limit, consider a chain of neutral 3rds centered on the unison: m3-hd5-m7-n2-P4-n6-P1-n3-P5-n7-M2-hA4-M6 where hd = half-dim and hA = half-aug. Consider the 6 intervals hd5-n2-n6-n3-n7-hA4. Coldly suspended seems to mean the central part of this chain. Warmly suspended seems to mean the further away parts. Except hd5 = 16/11 gets its own category. Again, this might be because 3/2 is so powerful, 16/11 sounds more like a very flat 3/2 than an interval in its own right. Note that there's a small comma 243/242 which tends to blur the difference between 11-over and 11-under.
: For 11-limit, consider a chain of neutral 3rds centered on the unison: m3-hd5-m7-n2-P4-n6-P1-n3-P5-n7-M2-hA4-M6 where hd = half-dim and hA = half-aug. Consider the 6 intervals hd5-n2-n6-n3-n7-hA4. Coldly suspended seems to mean the central part of this chain. Warmly suspended seems to mean the further away parts. Except hd5 = 16/11 gets its own category. Again, this might be because 3/2 is so powerful, 16/11 sounds more like a very flat 3/2 than an interval in its own right. Note that there's a small comma 243/242 which tends to blur the difference between 11-over and 11-under.
: So your categories seem to correspond to various regions of the lattice, which makes sense to me. Not sure I understand the positive/negative classification. Personally I loosely classify imperfect intervals as supermajor-major-neutral-minor-subminor, 5ths as superperfect-perfect-halfdim-dim-(subdim) and 4ths as (superaug)-aug-halfaug-perfect-subperfect. So basically 5-limit and deviations from there, very 31-edo-like. One could add submajor, superminor, superperfect 4th, etc. to get it down to 3-limit, very 41-edo-like. If you sharpen the 5th, then in the 3-limit chain of 5ths major sounds like supermajor and minor sounds subminor. If you flatten it, you get submajor and superminor, and if you flatten a lot, neutral. Is that the logic behind positive/negative? If so, that might be a better way to describe it, rather than referring to edos. Also note that to get 11/8 and 16/11, you are presumably flattening the 5th by a quartertone. This makes the major 2nd sound minor, and the major 3rd sound diminished! --[[User:TallKite|TallKite]] ([[User talk:TallKite|talk]]) 07:23, 2 August 2021 (UTC)
: So your categories seem to correspond to various regions of the lattice, which makes sense to me. Not sure I understand the positive/negative classification. Personally I loosely classify imperfect intervals as supermajor-major-neutral-minor-subminor, 5ths as superperfect-perfect-halfdim-dim-(subdim) and 4ths as (superaug)-aug-halfaug-perfect-subperfect. So basically 5-limit and deviations from there, very 31-edo-like. One could add submajor, superminor, superperfect 4th, etc. to get it down to 3-limit, very 41-edo-like. If you sharpen the 5th, then in the 3-limit chain of 5ths major sounds like supermajor and minor sounds subminor. If you flatten it, you get submajor and superminor, and if you flatten a lot, neutral. Is that the logic behind positive/negative? If so, that might be a better way to describe it, rather than referring to edos. Also note that to get 11/8 and 16/11, you are presumably flattening the 5th by a quartertone. This makes the major 2nd sound minor, and the major 3rd sound diminished! --[[User:TallKite|TallKite]] ([[User talk:TallKite|talk]]) 07:23, 2 August 2021 (UTC)
:: Thank you so much for your response! Yes, the logic is that positive polarity refers to intervals generated by sharp fifths while negative polarity refers to intervals generated by flat fifths. I appreciate all of your input and the connection between color notation and intervallic polarity makes a lot of sense. On the other hand, I still wonder if there is something related to the dissonance, harmonic entropy, or complexity of an interval that could be used to derive its intervallic polarity. (This could allow intervallic polarity to possibly be generalized to chords and/or intervals played with different timbres)
:: Thank you so much for your response! Yes, the logic is that positive polarity refers to intervals generated by sharp fifths while negative polarity refers to intervals generated by flat fifths. I appreciate all of your input and the connection between color notation and intervallic polarity makes a lot of sense. On the other hand, I still wonder if there is something related to the dissonance, harmonic entropy, or complexity of an interval that could be used to derive its intervallic polarity. (This could allow intervallic polarity to possibly be generalized to chords and/or intervals played with different timbres) --[[User:Userminusone|Userminusone]] ([[User talk:Userminusone|talk]]) 21:11, 2 August 2021 (UTC)