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== Taxonomy of tuning approaches ==
* Tuning rationalism
** JI purism: this school recognizes that the acoustic quality of JI is of top importance. Some consider music as a platonic ideal object that cannot be approximated at all. Meanwhile, its weaker version is characterized by being maximally strict about JI approximation.
*** Primodality: I don't feel entitled to define this.
*** Stacking based aka lattice based: a more traditional approach to JI. They recognize both the acoustic quality and the algebraic structure of JI.
** JI approximabilism: this school recognizes that the acoustic quality of JI and the algebraic structure of tuning systems are similarly important, and therefore accepts a tradeoff.
*** RTT: this school encompasses stacking based JI and applies approximation for custom structures.
** JI agnosticism: this school suspends the question whether the acoustic quality of JI is of importance. It tends to focus on algebraic structures such as mos scales and generalizations.
** JI indifferentism: this school does not believe the acoustic quality of JI is of importance. Practice in this school is orthogonal to the influence of JI.
* Tuning empiricism
* Tuning stochasticism
== Important prime limits ==
; 3-limit (rank-2):
* Essential interval functions
; 13-limit (rank-6):
* Essential interval colors
* Tonality: tonal and microtonal
* Categorical characteristics: pivotal, ambitonal, and semiambitonal
* Mode 8
; 23-limit (rank-9):
* Limit of classical functional harmony
* Limit of classical concordance
* Tonality: pseudotonal and pseudomicrotonal
* Categorical characteristics: pseudoambitonal
* Mode 12
* Followed by a record prime gap
; 31-limit (rank-11)
* Mode 16
; 37-limit (rank-12)
; 47-limit (rank-15)
* Mode 24
; 61-limit (rank-18)
* Mode 32
; 89-limit (rank-24)
* Mode 48
* Followed by a record prime gap
== Tuning equal temperaments ==
I call equal temperaments in Tenney-Euclidean tuning "ette".  
I call equal temperaments in Tenney-Euclidean tuning "ette".  


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Some super easy formulae for such a tuning follows.  
Some super easy formulae for such a tuning follows.  


== 3-limit TE tuning of ets ==
=== 3-limit TE tuning of ets ===
Given a val A, we have Tenney-weighted val V = AW, where W is the Tenney-weighting matrix.  
Given a val A, we have Tenney-weighted val V = AW, where W is the Tenney-weighting matrix.  


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== 3-limit TOP tuning of ets ==
=== 3-limit TOP tuning of ets ===
This part is deduced from Paul Erlich's ''Middle Path''.  
This part is deduced from Paul Erlich's ''Middle Path''.  


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This ''e'' is also the amount to stretch or compress each prime.  
This ''e'' is also the amount to stretch or compress each prime.  


== General TE tuning of ets ==
=== General TE tuning of ets ===
This time we have a sequence c &#61; {''c''<sub>''n''</sub>}, where  
This time we have a sequence c &#61; {''c''<sub>''n''</sub>}, where  


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== Notes ==
=== Notes ===
* For the nullity-1 temperament tempering out {{monzo| ''m''<sub>1</sub> ''m''<sub>2</sub> … ''m''<sub>''n''</sub> }}, each prime ''q<sub>i</sub>'' is tuned to  
* For the nullity-1 temperament tempering out {{monzo| ''m''<sub>1</sub> ''m''<sub>2</sub> … ''m''<sub>''n''</sub> }}, each prime ''q<sub>i</sub>'' is tuned to  
: <math>-\operatorname {sgn} (m_i) \log_2 (q_i) \frac {\sum_j m_j \log_2 (q_j)}{\sum_j \vert m_j \vert \log_2 (q_j)}</math>
: <math>-\operatorname {sgn} (m_i) \log_2 (q_i) \frac {\sum_j m_j \log_2 (q_j)}{\sum_j \vert m_j \vert \log_2 (q_j)}</math>
* Even for ets, TOP and TE tuning are not identical, but close.
* Even for ets, TOP and TE tuning are not identical, but close.
* The relative interval error space of equal temperaments in TOP tuning seems to be linear.