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== Relating a mos and its descendants == | == Relating a mos and its descendants == | ||
Larger mosses can be described by how they related back to a more familiar mos and vice-versa. In general, all mosses with ''n'' periods relate back to a root mos of ''n''L ''n''s. For TAMNAMS-named mosses, any octave-equivalent mos with more than 10 steps and no more than 5 periods is related to some TAMNAMS-named mos. | |||
In either case, any mos can be related to its descendants by treating it as the root of its own scale tree. | In either case, any mos can be related to its descendants by treating it as the root of its own scale tree. Particularly in the absence of any names, mosses can be ''described'' as being some descendant of a related ancestor mos ''x''L ''y''s. Such mosses, called ''mos descendants'' – or ''children'', ''grandchildren'', and ''great-grandchildren'', for the first three generations of descendants – contain the following pattern of step counts. | ||
{| class="wikitable" | {| class="wikitable" | ||
! colspan="2" |Parent | ! colspan="2" |Parent | ||
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!Small steps | !Small steps | ||
|- | |- | ||
| rowspan="8" |x | | rowspan="8" |''x'' | ||
| rowspan="8" |y | | rowspan="8" |''y'' | ||
| rowspan="4" |x+y | | rowspan="4" |''x+y'' | ||
| rowspan="4" |x | | rowspan="4" |''x'' | ||
| rowspan="2" |x+y | | rowspan="2" |''x+y'' | ||
| rowspan="2" | | | rowspan="2" |2''x+y'' | ||
|x+y | |''x+y'' | ||
| | |3''x''+2''y'' | ||
|- | |- | ||
| | |3''x''+2''y'' | ||
|x+y | |''x+y'' | ||
|- | |- | ||
| rowspan="2" | | | rowspan="2" |2''x+y'' | ||
| rowspan="2" |x+y | | rowspan="2" |''x+y'' | ||
| | |3''x''+2''y'' | ||
| | |2''x+y'' | ||
|- | |- | ||
| | |2''x+y'' | ||
| | |3''x''+2''y'' | ||
|- | |- | ||
| rowspan="4" |x | | rowspan="4" |''x'' | ||
| rowspan="4" |x+y | | rowspan="4" |''x+y'' | ||
| rowspan="2" | | | rowspan="2" |2''x+y'' | ||
| rowspan="2" |x | | rowspan="2" |''x'' | ||
| | |2''x+y'' | ||
| | |3''x+y'' | ||
|- | |- | ||
| | |3''x+y'' | ||
| | |2''x+y'' | ||
|- | |- | ||
| rowspan="2" |x | | rowspan="2" |''x'' | ||
| rowspan="2" | | | rowspan="2" |2''x+y'' | ||
| | |3''x+y'' | ||
|x | |''x'' | ||
|- | |- | ||
|x | |''x'' | ||
| | |3''x+y'' | ||
|} | |} | ||
For example, the first three generations of ''diatonic descendants'' can be described as: | |||
=== Finding a mos | * ''Children of 5L 2s'': 7L 5s and 5L 7s | ||
* ''Grandchildren of 5L 2s'': 5L 12s, 12L 5s, 12L 7s, and 7L 12s | |||
* ''Great-grandchildren of 5L 2s'': 5L 17s, 17L 5s, 17L 12s, 12L 17s, 12L 19s, 19L 12s, 12L 7s, and 7L 19s | |||
=== Finding the ancestor of a descendant mos ''x''L ''y''s with a target note count ''n'' or less === | |||
For a mos ''x''L ''y''s, perform the following algorithm to find a familiar descendant with target note count ''n'' or less: | For a mos ''x''L ''y''s, perform the following algorithm to find a familiar descendant with target note count ''n'' or less: | ||
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#Assign to ''z'' the value ''m2'' and ''w'' the value ''m1''-''m2''. | #Assign to ''z'' the value ''m2'' and ''w'' the value ''m1''-''m2''. | ||
#If ''z''+''w'' is less than or equal to ''n'', then the parent mos is ''z''L ''w''s. If not, repeat the process starting at step 2. | #If ''z''+''w'' is less than or equal to ''n'', then the parent mos is ''z''L ''w''s. If not, repeat the process starting at step 2. | ||
=== Finding an ancestor's step ratio that produces a descandant mos ''x''L ''y''s === | |||
== Names for mosses with more than 10 notes == | == Names for mosses with more than 10 notes == | ||