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In 2020 music educator Adam Neely picked up the term and used it in his Seven Levels of Jazz Harmony, with a somewhat different and rather ambiguous intent, where he seemed to describe the use of a tempered scale (often [[12edo]]) for the lead melody of a piece. The current melody note at any given point in time is then treated as a reference pitch, and the current backing chord uses pure just intonation, tuned relative to the current reference pitch. In a sense this is an inverse form of [[adaptive just intonation]] where the bass line adjusts to a tempered scale and the melody and harmony notes tune to it.

An example of the score and notations [[:File:COPPER Lelisir Tableau.png|File:COPPER Lelisir Tableau.png]] illustrates several things. The key signature includes a reference notation to indicate where the tonal center is tuned; individual notes are adjusted up or down by syntonic comma as needed; and the final bar illustrated shows one of the many tonal areas found through intonalism but impossible in equal temperament, even beginning from the same reference pitch, in this case A=440.

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 In 2020 music educator Adam Neely picked up the term and used it in his Seven Levels of Jazz Harmony, with a somewhat different and rather ambiguous intent, where he seemed to describe the use of a tempered scale (often [[12edo]]) for the lead melody of a piece. The current melody note at any given point in time is then treated as a reference pitch, and the current backing chord uses pure just intonation, tuned relative to the current reference pitch. In a sense this is an inverse form of [[adaptive just intonation]] where the bass line adjusts to a tempered scale and the melody and harmony notes tune to it.
+An example of the score and notations [[:File:COPPER Lelisir Tableau.png|File:COPPER Lelisir Tableau.png]] illustrates several things. The key signature includes a reference notation to indicate where the tonal center is tuned; individual notes are adjusted up or down  by syntonic comma as needed; and the final bar illustrated shows one of the many tonal areas found through intonalism but impossible in equal temperament, even beginning from the same reference pitch, in this case A=440.
 [[Category:Just intonation]]
 [[Category:Intonalism]]