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-This is a subpage for TAMNAMS-related notes.
+This is a subpage for TAMNAMS-related notes, containing various proposals of varying degrees of usefulness and other related tables.
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+== Naming mos modes ==
+=== Current proposal, with amendment for emphasis on dark generator ===
+There is currently a proposed system for naming mos modes as follows: '''xL ys u|''', where x is the number of large steps, y is the number of small steps, u corresponds to the the mode's UDP (the u in u|d), and | is pronounced as "pipe". As an example, the modes of 4L 1s (manual) can be named as the following:
+{| class="wikitable"
+|+Modes of manual (4L 1s)
+!Mode
+!UDP
+!TAMNAMS name
+|-
+|LLLLs
+|<nowiki>4|0</nowiki>
+|<nowiki>4L 1s 4|</nowiki>
+|-
+|LLLsL
+|<nowiki>3|1</nowiki>
+|<nowiki>4L 1s 3|</nowiki>
+|-
+|LLsLL
+|<nowiki>2|2</nowiki>
+|<nowiki>4L 1s 2|</nowiki>
+|-
+|LsLLL
+|<nowiki>1|3</nowiki>
+|<nowiki>4L 1s 1|</nowiki>
+|-
+|sLLLL
+|<nowiki>0|4</nowiki>
+|<nowiki>4L 1s 0|</nowiki>
+|}
+In situations where it's more intuitive to think in terms of the dark generator instead of the bright generator, the format is instead '''xL ys |d''', where d corresponds to the mode's UDP (the d in u|d). An example of this can be seen in the classic pentatonic scale (2L 3s), where even though the bright generator corresponds to diatonic's perfect 4th (which is actually diatonic's dark generator), it's common to think of these modes in terms of diatonic's bright generator (even though it's the dark generator of 2L 3s). This is because the bright and dark generators "flip" between 2L 3s to 5L 2s. (In general, generators flip when a mos xL ys has a child of (x+y)L xs, but don't flip if the child is xL (x+y)s, and in general, looking at modes in terms of the dark generator reverses the order of modes compared with the bright generator.)
+{| class="wikitable"
+|+Modes of pentic (2L 3)
+!Mode
+!UDP
+!TAMNAMS Mode name
+|-
+|sLsLL
+|<nowiki>0|4</nowiki>
+|<nowiki>2L 3s |4</nowiki>
+|-
+|sLLsL
+|<nowiki>1|3</nowiki>
+|<nowiki>2L 3s |3</nowiki>
+|-
+|LsLsL
+|<nowiki>2|2</nowiki>
+|<nowiki>2L 3s |2</nowiki>
+|-
+|LsLLs
+|<nowiki>3|1</nowiki>
+|<nowiki>2L 3s |1</nowiki>
+|-
+|LLsLs
+|<nowiki>4|0</nowiki>
+|<nowiki>2L 3s |0</nowiki>
+|}
+=== Mode names based on mos prefixes ===
+If a more memorable name is desired but there are no assigned names, interim names can be made using the mos's mosprefix and adding "-nian" or "-ian". Modes are enumerated based on descending order of modal brightness, producing 1st mosprefixian for the brightest mode, 2nd mosprefixian for the 2nd-brightest mode, etc. If the mosprefix and mosname are identical or nearly identical (ie, different by up to 2 letters, as jaric/jara- or pine/pine-) or the mos is an n-wood scale, the mos name can be used directly without any prefixes, producing 1st mosname, 2nd mosname, etc.
+{| class="wikitable"
+|+Modes of antipine (7L 1s)
+!Mode
+!UDP
+!Mode name
+|-
+|LLLLLLLs
+|<nowiki>7|0</nowiki>
+|1st pine
+|-
+|LLLLLLsL
+|<nowiki>6|1</nowiki>
+|2nd pine
+|-
+|LLLLLsLL
+|<nowiki>5|2</nowiki>
+|3rd pine
+|-
+|LLLLsLLL
+|<nowiki>4|3</nowiki>
+|4th pine
+|-
+|LLLsLLLL
+|<nowiki>3|4</nowiki>
+|5th pine
+|-
+|LLsLLLLL
+|<nowiki>2|5</nowiki>
+|6th pine
+|-
+|LsLLLLLL
+|<nowiki>1|6</nowiki>
+|7th pine
+|-
+|sLLLLLLL
+|<nowiki>0|7</nowiki>
+|8th pine
+|}
+{| class="wikitable"
+|+Modes of tcherepnin (3L 6s)
+!Mode
+!UDP
+!Mode name
+|-
+|LssLssLss
+|<nowiki>6|0(3)</nowiki>
+|1st cherian
+|-
+|sLssLssLs
+|<nowiki>3|3(3)</nowiki>
+|2nd cherian
+|-
+|ssLssLssL
+|<nowiki>0|6(3)</nowiki>
+|3rd cherian
+|}
 == Suggested changes for mos pattern names ==
 This section describes changes to existing [[TAMNAMS]] names that I would make. Reasons: