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** [[Nominal-Accidental Chains]] A common approach to notation | ** [[Nominal-Accidental Chains]] A common approach to notation | ||
* the notion of a [[Scalesmith]] who //builds// scales, with various methods, perhaps for single occasions | * the notion of a [[Scalesmith]] who //builds// scales, with various methods, perhaps for single occasions | ||
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** Acoustically-based scales (resonant frequencies of performance space, for example) | |||
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<div style="width:100%; max-height:400pt; overflow:auto; background-color:#f8f9fa; border: 1px solid #eaecf0; padding:0em"><pre style="margin:0px;border:none;background:none;word-wrap:break-word;width:200%;white-space: pre-wrap ! important" class="old-revision-html"><html><head><title>Approaches to Musical Tuning</title></head><body><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">Below is a partial list of currently-established theories and approaches related to tuning.</span><br /> | <div style="width:100%; max-height:400pt; overflow:auto; background-color:#f8f9fa; border: 1px solid #eaecf0; padding:0em"><pre style="margin:0px;border:none;background:none;word-wrap:break-word;width:200%;white-space: pre-wrap ! important" class="old-revision-html"><html><head><title>Approaches to Musical Tuning</title></head><body><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">Below is a partial list of currently-established theories and approaches related to tuning.</span><br /> | ||
<ul><li><a class="wiki_link" href="/JustIntonation">Just Intonation</a>: The tuning of pitches so that their fundamental frequencies are related by ratios of whole numbers. An infinite world of numerous models: the harmonic series, integer frequency ratios, tonality diamonds, eikosany, Fokker blocks etc.</li><li><a class="wiki_link" href="http://xenharmonic.wikispaces.com/Equal%20Temperaments">Equal tuning</a>: Tunings that use a single interval (and combinations thereof) to form a subtle monoculture of intervals.</li><li><a class="wiki_link" href="/Historical%20Western%20Temperaments">Historical Western Temperaments</a>: The (somewhat forgotten) use of <a class="wiki_link" href="http://xenharmonic.wikispaces.com/Meantone">meantone tunings</a> and <a class="wiki_link" href="/well%20temperament">well temperaments</a> in Western common practice music.</li><li>Musical traditions of indigenous, ancient, and/or non-Western cultures<ul><li><a class="wiki_link" href="/Arabic%2C%20Turkish%2C%20Persian">Arabic, Turkish, Persian</a></li><li><a class="wiki_link" href="/Indian">Indian</a> (North, South)</li><li><a class="wiki_link" href="/African">African</a></li><li>Thai</li><li><a class="wiki_link" href="/Pre-Columbian%20South%20American%20Music">Pre-Columbian South American</a> (e.g. Maya, Inca, Aztec..)</li><li><a class="wiki_link" href="/Indonesian">Indonesian</a> (Java, Bali)</li><li>Ancient Greek, <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://orthodoxwiki.org/Byzantine_Chant#The_scale" rel="nofollow">Byzantine</a></li></ul></li><li><a class="wiki_link" href="/Regular%20Temperaments">Regular Temperaments</a>: (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</li><li><a class="wiki_link" href="/MOSScales">Moment of Symmetry</a>: Tunings (or better, scales) that use iterations of a generating interval, modulo a period interval, to produce scales of two step-sizes.</li><li><a class="wiki_link" href="/Empirical">Empirical</a> This is a form of hands-on, field research as opposed to a form of acoustical or scale engineering where tunings are specifically derived from listening and playing experiments carried out in the pitch continuum.</li><li><a class="wiki_link" href="/tetrachord">Tetrachordal Scales</a>: the use of divided fourths as building blocks for composition.</li><li><a class="wiki_link" href="/isoharmonic%20chords">Isoharmonic chords/scales</a></li><li><a class="wiki_link" href="/Pretty%20Pictures">Pretty Pictures</a> that represent scales in one way or another</li><li><a class="wiki_link" href="/Notation">Notation</a>(pretty pictures for a the purpose of writing music down)<ul><li><a class="wiki_link" href="/Nominal-Accidental%20Chains">Nominal-Accidental Chains</a> A common approach to notation</li></ul></li><li>the notion of a <a class="wiki_link" href="/Scalesmith">Scalesmith</a> who <em>builds</em> scales, with various methods, perhaps for single occasions<ul><li> | <ul><li><a class="wiki_link" href="/JustIntonation">Just Intonation</a>: The tuning of pitches so that their fundamental frequencies are related by ratios of whole numbers. An infinite world of numerous models: the harmonic series, integer frequency ratios, tonality diamonds, eikosany, Fokker blocks etc.</li><li><a class="wiki_link" href="http://xenharmonic.wikispaces.com/Equal%20Temperaments">Equal tuning</a>: Tunings that use a single interval (and combinations thereof) to form a subtle monoculture of intervals.</li><li><a class="wiki_link" href="/Historical%20Western%20Temperaments">Historical Western Temperaments</a>: The (somewhat forgotten) use of <a class="wiki_link" href="http://xenharmonic.wikispaces.com/Meantone">meantone tunings</a> and <a class="wiki_link" href="/well%20temperament">well temperaments</a> in Western common practice music.</li><li>Musical traditions of indigenous, ancient, and/or non-Western cultures<ul><li><a class="wiki_link" href="/Arabic%2C%20Turkish%2C%20Persian">Arabic, Turkish, Persian</a></li><li><a class="wiki_link" href="/Indian">Indian</a> (North, South)</li><li><a class="wiki_link" href="/African">African</a></li><li>Thai</li><li><a class="wiki_link" href="/Pre-Columbian%20South%20American%20Music">Pre-Columbian South American</a> (e.g. Maya, Inca, Aztec..)</li><li><a class="wiki_link" href="/Indonesian">Indonesian</a> (Java, Bali)</li><li>Ancient Greek, <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://orthodoxwiki.org/Byzantine_Chant#The_scale" rel="nofollow">Byzantine</a></li></ul></li><li><a class="wiki_link" href="/Regular%20Temperaments">Regular Temperaments</a>: (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</li><li><a class="wiki_link" href="/MOSScales">Moment of Symmetry</a>: Tunings (or better, scales) that use iterations of a generating interval, modulo a period interval, to produce scales of two step-sizes.</li><li><a class="wiki_link" href="/Empirical">Empirical</a> This is a form of hands-on, field research as opposed to a form of acoustical or scale engineering where tunings are specifically derived from listening and playing experiments carried out in the pitch continuum.</li><li><a class="wiki_link" href="/tetrachord">Tetrachordal Scales</a>: the use of divided fourths as building blocks for composition.</li><li><a class="wiki_link" href="/isoharmonic%20chords">Isoharmonic chords/scales</a></li><li><a class="wiki_link" href="/Pretty%20Pictures">Pretty Pictures</a> that represent scales in one way or another</li><li><a class="wiki_link" href="/Notation">Notation</a>(pretty pictures for a the purpose of writing music down)<ul><li><a class="wiki_link" href="/Nominal-Accidental%20Chains">Nominal-Accidental Chains</a> A common approach to notation</li></ul></li><li>the notion of a <a class="wiki_link" href="/Scalesmith">Scalesmith</a> who <em>builds</em> scales, with various methods, perhaps for single occasions<ul><li>Mathematically based scales</li><li>Acoustically-based scales (resonant frequencies of performance space, for example)</li><li>Scale transformation and stretching</li><li>Counter-intuitive, random, arbitrary scales</li></ul></li></ul></body></html></pre></div> | ||
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<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">Below is a partial list of currently-established theories and approaches related to tuning.</span> * [[JustIntonation|Just Intonation]]: The tuning of pitches so that their fundamental frequencies are related by ratios of whole numbers. An infinite world of numerous models: the harmonic series, integer frequency ratios, tonality diamonds, eikosany, Fokker blocks etc. * [[xenharmonic/Equal Temperaments|Equal tuning]]: Tunings that use a single interval (and combinations thereof) to form a subtle monoculture of intervals. * [[Historical Western Temperaments]]: The (somewhat forgotten) use of [[xenharmonic/Meantone|meantone tunings]] and [[well temperament|well temperaments]] in Western common practice music. * Musical traditions of indigenous, ancient, and/or non-Western cultures ** [[Arabic, Turkish, Persian]] ** [[Indian]] (North, South) ** [[African]] ** Thai ** [[Pre-Columbian South American Music|Pre-Columbian South American]] (e.g. Maya, Inca, Aztec..) ** [[Indonesian]] (Java, Bali) ** Ancient Greek, [[http://orthodoxwiki.org/Byzantine_Chant#The_scale|Byzantine]] * [[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 * [[MOSScales|Moment of Symmetry]]: Tunings (or better, scales) that use iterations of a generating interval, modulo a period interval, to produce scales of two step-sizes. * [[Empirical]] This is a form of hands-on, field research as opposed to a form of acoustical or scale engineering where tunings are specifically derived from listening and playing experiments carried out in the pitch continuum. * [[tetrachord|Tetrachordal Scales]]: the use of divided fourths as building blocks for composition. * [[isoharmonic chords|Isoharmonic chords/scales]] * [[Pretty Pictures]] that represent scales in one way or another * [[Notation]](pretty pictures for a the purpose of writing music down) ** [[Nominal-Accidental Chains]] A common approach to notation * the notion of a [[Scalesmith]] who //builds// scales, with various methods, perhaps for single occasions ** Mathematically based scales ** Acoustically-based scales (resonant frequencies of performance space, for example) ** Scale transformation and stretching ** Counter-intuitive, random, arbitrary scales
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<html><head><title>Approaches to Musical Tuning</title></head><body><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">Below is a partial list of currently-established theories and approaches related to tuning.</span><br /> <ul><li><a class="wiki_link" href="/JustIntonation">Just Intonation</a>: The tuning of pitches so that their fundamental frequencies are related by ratios of whole numbers. An infinite world of numerous models: the harmonic series, integer frequency ratios, tonality diamonds, eikosany, Fokker blocks etc.</li><li><a class="wiki_link" href="http://xenharmonic.wikispaces.com/Equal%20Temperaments">Equal tuning</a>: Tunings that use a single interval (and combinations thereof) to form a subtle monoculture of intervals.</li><li><a class="wiki_link" href="/Historical%20Western%20Temperaments">Historical Western Temperaments</a>: The (somewhat forgotten) use of <a class="wiki_link" href="http://xenharmonic.wikispaces.com/Meantone">meantone tunings</a> and <a class="wiki_link" href="/well%20temperament">well temperaments</a> in Western common practice music.</li><li>Musical traditions of indigenous, ancient, and/or non-Western cultures<ul><li><a class="wiki_link" href="/Arabic%2C%20Turkish%2C%20Persian">Arabic, Turkish, Persian</a></li><li><a class="wiki_link" href="/Indian">Indian</a> (North, South)</li><li><a class="wiki_link" href="/African">African</a></li><li>Thai</li><li><a class="wiki_link" href="/Pre-Columbian%20South%20American%20Music">Pre-Columbian South American</a> (e.g. Maya, Inca, Aztec..)</li><li><a class="wiki_link" href="/Indonesian">Indonesian</a> (Java, Bali)</li><li>Ancient Greek, <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://orthodoxwiki.org/Byzantine_Chant#The_scale" rel="nofollow">Byzantine</a></li></ul></li><li><a class="wiki_link" href="/Regular%20Temperaments">Regular Temperaments</a>: (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</li><li><a class="wiki_link" href="/MOSScales">Moment of Symmetry</a>: Tunings (or better, scales) that use iterations of a generating interval, modulo a period interval, to produce scales of two step-sizes.</li><li><a class="wiki_link" href="/Empirical">Empirical</a> This is a form of hands-on, field research as opposed to a form of acoustical or scale engineering where tunings are specifically derived from listening and playing experiments carried out in the pitch continuum.</li><li><a class="wiki_link" href="/tetrachord">Tetrachordal Scales</a>: the use of divided fourths as building blocks for composition.</li><li><a class="wiki_link" href="/isoharmonic%20chords">Isoharmonic chords/scales</a></li><li><a class="wiki_link" href="/Pretty%20Pictures">Pretty Pictures</a> that represent scales in one way or another</li><li><a class="wiki_link" href="/Notation">Notation</a>(pretty pictures for a the purpose of writing music down)<ul><li><a class="wiki_link" href="/Nominal-Accidental%20Chains">Nominal-Accidental Chains</a> A common approach to notation</li></ul></li><li>the notion of a <a class="wiki_link" href="/Scalesmith">Scalesmith</a> who <em>builds</em> scales, with various methods, perhaps for single occasions<ul><li>Mathematically based scales</li><li>Acoustically-based scales (resonant frequencies of performance space, for example)</li><li>Scale transformation and stretching</li><li>Counter-intuitive, random, arbitrary scales</li></ul></li></ul></body></html>