Chromatic pairs: Difference between revisions
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The phrase ''chromatic pair'' refers to a pair of [[MOS scale|moment-of-symmetry scales]] in some rank-2 temperament (or [[Just intonation subgroups|subgroup temperament]]) that are analogous to the familiar diatonic and chromatic scales of standard tuning. The smaller scale is referred to as "albitonic" (from the Latin word for "white"), named such since the diatonic scale can be played using the white keys of a piano, and the larger of the two is "chromatic", analogous to the chromatic scale of standard tuning. A third type of related scale are "haplotonic" scales (from the Greek word for "single" or "simple"), analogous to the pentatonic scale of standard tuning and played using the black keys of a piano. The pair temperaments are listed in order of increasing [[Tp_tuning#T2 tuning|RMS error]], which is an appropriate error measure for subgroups as well as full p-limit groups. | |||
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