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== Credits ==
== Credits ==
<blockquote>''No changes.''</blockquote>
''No changes.''
 
==Step ratio spectrum==
==Step ratio spectrum==
<blockquote>''No changes''.</blockquote>
''No changes''.
 
==Naming mos intervals==
==Naming mos intervals==
<blockquote>''No changes.''</blockquote>
''No changes.''
 
==Naming mos degrees==
==Naming mos degrees==
<blockquote>''No changes''.</blockquote>
''No changes''.
 
==Mos pattern names ==
==Mos pattern names ==
''This section contains unapproved namechanges. They are provided for reference/completeness.''
''This section contains unapproved namechanges. They are provided for reference/completeness.''
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==Naming mos modes==
==Naming mos modes==
<blockquote>''No changes''. </blockquote>
''No changes''.


==Generalization to non-mos scales==
==Generalization to non-mos scales==
<blockquote>''No changes''.</blockquote>
''No changes''.
 
==Extending the named range==
==Extending the named range==


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==Reasoning for mos pattern names==
==Reasoning for mos pattern names==
<blockquote>''The following is a rewrite to a section to the TAMNAMS appendix. This section contains unapproved namechanges. They are provided for reference/completeness.''</blockquote>The goal of TAMNAMS mos names is to choose memorable but aesthetically neutral names for the most common octave-equivalent mosses that are also agnostic of regular temperament theory. More in-depth reasonings for names are given here.
''The following is a rewrite to a section to the TAMNAMS appendix. This section contains unapproved namechanges. They are provided for reference/completeness.''
 
The goal of TAMNAMS mos names is to choose memorable names for the most common octave-equivalent mosses. Generally, names should befit the mos they're describing ''no matter what temperaments support it'', allowing them to be discussed agnostically of any RTT-related contexts.


===General reasonings===
===General reasonings===


==== Using established names ====
==== Established names ====
Notable non-temperament names are incorporated into TAMNAMS if they do not cause confusion. Such names include ''mosh'' (from Graham Breed's naming scheme), ''tcheretonic'' (in reference to Alexander Tcherepnin's 9-note scale), ''oneirotonic'', ''balzano'', and ''diatonic.''
Notable non-temperament names are incorporated into TAMNAMS if they do not cause confusion. Such names include ''mosh'' (from Graham Breed's naming scheme), ''tcheretonic'' (in reference to Alexander Tcherepnin's 9-note scale), ''oneirotonic'', ''balzano'', and ''diatonic.''


==== Assigning names that describe an interval quality ====
==== Names that describe an interval quality ====
Several mosses are named after an interval or a (diatonic) interval quality. Such names include ''smitonic'', ''gramitonic'', ''semiquartal'', and ''sinatonic'', named after "sharp minor third", "grave minor third", "half-fourth", and the interval ''sinaic'', respectively.
Several mosses are named after an interval or a (diatonic) interval quality. Such names include ''smitonic'', ''gramitonic'', ''semiquartal'', ''subneutralic'', and ''sinatonic'', from "sharp minor third", "grave minor third", "half-fourth", "between supraminor and neutral", and the interval [[sinaic]], respectively.


==== Assigning names based on ''notable'' temperaments ====
==== Temperament-based names ====
Use of temperament-based names is generally avoided except where the temperaments in question are exceptionally notable. Such names include ''pine'', ''hyrulic'', ''jaric'', ''ekic'' and ''lemon''; however these reference (in the case of ''hyrulic'') or are heavily abstracted forms of the original temperament names of porcupine, triforce, pajara, echidnoid, and lemba, respectively.
Temperament-based names should be used as a last resort and such names should be abstracted from the original temperament names. Such names include ''pine'', ''hyrulic'', ''jaric'', ''ekic'' and ''lemon''; these reference the temperaments of porcupine, triforce, pajara, echidnoid, and lemba, respectively.


Temperament-based names ending in the prefix ''-oid'' – namely ''machinoid'', ''sephiroid'', and ''dicoid'' – refer to [[Exotemperament|exotemperaments]] (low-accuracy temperaments) whose tuning ranges (including extreme tunings) cover the entirety of their corresponding mosses. Therefore, edos with simple step ratios for that mos will correspond to valid tunings for that temperament (if not by patent val, then with a small number of warts).
Temperament-based names ending in the prefix ''-oid'' – namely ''machinoid'', ''sephiroid'', and ''dicoid'' – refer to [[Exotemperament|low-accuracy temperaments]] (exotemperaments) whose tuning ranges, when including extreme tunings, cover the entirety of their corresponding mosses. Therefore, edos with simple step ratios for that mos will correspond to valid tunings for that temperament (if not by patent val, then with a small number of warts).


====Assigning names to mosses most likely to see use====
====Assign names to mosses most likely to see use====
Names are given to mosses that are the most likely to be used by musicians. As such, TAMNAMS primarily provides names for mosses within the range of 6 to 10 steps (or 2 to 10 steps, when including the extended named range for mosses with 6 steps or fewer). This range is chosen to avoid naming large mosses for the sake of naming, though some mosses outside the named range have been given unique, though possibly idiosyncratic, names of their own.
Names are given to mosses that are the most likely to be used by musicians. As such, TAMNAMS primarily provides names for mosses within the range of 6 to 10 steps (or 2 to 10 steps, when including the extended named range for mosses with 6 steps or fewer). This range is chosen to avoid naming large mosses for the sake of naming, though some mosses outside the named range have been given unique, though possibly idiosyncratic, names of their own.


=== Name-specific reasonings ===
=== Relationship-based reasonings ===
 
==== ''n''L ''n''s mosses ====
Mosses of the form ''n''L ''n''s are given names based on a Greek numeral prefix appended to the base name ''wood'', in reference to the temperaments [[blackwood]] and [[whitewood]]. Coincidentally, all mosses with ''n'' periods form a binary tree whose root is ''n''L ''n''s, lending credence to the wood-based name.
 
====Monolarge mosses====
====Monolarge mosses====
[[Step-generated scale|Monolarge]] mosses (mosses of the form 1L ''n''s) were originally left unnamed due to the tuning ranges for these mosses being so large that they were unhelpful with knowing how they sound. This position was changed as of August 2022, and names have been given since it's useful for describing structure in situations where one does not want to use the mathematical name, and especially in such contexts, a specific tuning will likely be specified.
[[Step-generated scale|Monolarge]] mosses (mosses of the form 1L ''n''s) were originally left unnamed due to the tuning ranges for these mosses being so large that they were unhelpful with knowing how they sound. This position was changed as of August 2022, and names have been given since it's useful for describing structure in situations where one does not want to use the mathematical name, and especially in such contexts, a specific tuning will likely be specified.
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* 1L 9s is named ''olivine'', as it rhymes with "nine", depending on one's pronunciation.
* 1L 9s is named ''olivine'', as it rhymes with "nine", depending on one's pronunciation.


====Multiperiod mosses====
{| class="wikitable"
|+Relationship between monolarge mosses
!Pattern
!Name
!. . .
!Pattern
!Name
!Pattern
!Name
!Pattern
!Name
!Pattern
!Name
!Pattern
!Name
|-
| rowspan="6" |''1L 1s''
| rowspan="6" |''monowood (provided for reference)''
| rowspan="6" |. . .
| rowspan="5" |1L 5s
| rowspan="5" |selenite
| rowspan="4" |1L 6s
| rowspan="4" |onyx
| rowspan="3" |1L 7s
| rowspan="3" |spinel
| rowspan="2" |1L 8s
| rowspan="2" |agate
|1L 9s
|olivine
|-
|1L 9s
|sinatonic
|-
|8L 1s
|subneutralic
| colspan="2" rowspan="4" |
|-
|7L 1s
|pine
| colspan="2" rowspan="3" |
|-
|6L 1s
|archaeotonic
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" |
|-
|5L 1s
|machinoid
| colspan="2" |
|}
 
==== Multiperiod mosses ====
Multiperiod mosses were originally given composite names that were based on the the repetition of a smaller step pattern.
Multiperiod mosses were originally given composite names that were based on the the repetition of a smaller step pattern.


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The name "subaric" alludes to the fact that 2L 6s is the largest proper '''sub'''set mos of both j'''aric''' (2L 8s) and t'''aric''' (8L 2s).
The name "subaric" alludes to the fact that 2L 6s is the largest proper '''sub'''set mos of both j'''aric''' (2L 8s) and t'''aric''' (8L 2s).


The name "jaric" alludes to a few highly notable and generally inaccurate (with the exception of diaschismic) temperaments that exist in the tuning range of this MOSS. Specifically, notice how the letters and sound of "jaric" has (or is intended to have) a lot of overlap with [[pajara|pa'''jar'''a]], [[diaschismic|diaschism'''ic''']] and [[injera|in'''jer'''a]] (listed in order of increasingly sharp fourths; note that diatonic fourths and 4-jarasteps are equated in jaric, a notable property).
The name "jaric" alludes to a few highly notable temperaments that exist in the tuning range of this mos. Specifically, the letters and pronunciation of "jaric" are meant to invoke that of [[pajara|pa'''jar'''a]], [[diaschismic|diaschism'''ic''']] and [[injera|in'''jer'''a]]. These temperaments, except for diaschismic, have generally inaccurate tunings.
 
The name "taric" was named based on it being the only named-range mos with a [[#Simple step ratios|basic]] tuning of [[18edo]] and was made to rhyme with jaric, as they share the parent mos of [[2L 6s]].
{| class="wikitable"
|+Relationship between 2-period mosses
!Pattern
!Name
!Pattern
!Name
!Pattern
!Name
!Pattern
!Name
|-
| rowspan="5" |''2L 2s''
| rowspan="5" |''biwood (provided for reference)''
| rowspan="2" |4L 2s
| rowspan="2" |citric
|4L 6s
|lime
|
|
|-
|6L 4s
|lemon
|
|
|-
| rowspan="3" |2L 4s
| rowspan="3" |malic
|6L 2s
|ekic
|
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |2L 6s
| rowspan="2" |subaric
|8L 2s
|taric
|-
|2L 8s
|jaric
|}
 
=== Detailed reasonings for specific names ===


The name "taric" was named based on it being the only TAMNAMS-named mos with a [[#Simple step ratios|basic]] tuning of [[18edo]] and it was also named based on rhyming with jaric (as they share the parent mos [[2L 6s]]).
====Pedal (1L 4s)====
====Pedal (1L 4s)====
Pedals are operated with feet, which have one large toe and four small toes. Also comes from words like "bipedal", where in TAMNAMS, "bipedal" would literally mean a pedal scale with a period equal to half of some chosen interval, although such a scale would have either two right feet or two left feet depending on orientation chosen. If you think "car"/"vehicle" when you think "pedal" and don't think (or want to think) much about feet then you can think about "[[beep]]ing" (as [[beep]] is the 7-limit 4&5 exotemperament). Because this name relies so heavily and fundamentally on there being 1 large and 4 small steps per period, it is appropriate to generalise for any size of period you would want. In that regard, same goes for manual, pentic and anpentic.
Pedals are operated with feet, which have one large toe and four small toes. Also comes from words like "bipedal", where in TAMNAMS, "bipedal" would literally mean a pedal scale with a period equal to half of some chosen interval, although such a scale would have either two right feet or two left feet depending on orientation chosen. If you think "car"/"vehicle" when you think "pedal" and don't think (or want to think) much about feet then you can think about "[[beep]]ing" (as [[beep]] is the 7-limit 4&5 exotemperament). Because this name relies so heavily and fundamentally on there being 1 large and 4 small steps per period, it is appropriate to generalise for any size of period you would want. In that regard, same goes for manual, pentic and anpentic.
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|-
|[[2L 3s]]
|[[2L 3s]]
| colspan="4" |''No change.''
|''No change''.
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|-
|[[3L 2s]]
|[[3L 2s]]
| colspan="4" |''No change.''
|''No change''.
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|[[4L 1s]]
|[[4L 1s]]
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|[[3L 3s]]
|[[3L 3s]]
| colspan="4" |''No change.''
|''No change''.
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|-
|[[4L 2s]]||lemon
|[[4L 2s]]||lemon
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|-
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|[[5L 1s]]
|[[5L 1s]]
| colspan="4" |''No change.''
|''No change''.
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! colspan="5" |7-note mosses
! colspan="5" |7-note mosses
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|[[3L 4s]]
|[[3L 4s]]
| colspan="4" |''No change.''
|''No change''.
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|-
|[[4L 3s]]
|[[4L 3s]]
| colspan="4" |''No change.''
|''No change''.
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|-
|[[5L 2s]]
|[[5L 2s]]
| colspan="4" |''No change.''
|''No change''.
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|[[6L 1s]]
|[[6L 1s]]
| colspan="4" |''No change.''
|''No change''.
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! colspan="5" |8-note mosses
! colspan="5" |8-note mosses
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|[[5L 3s]]
|[[5L 3s]]
| colspan="4" |''No change.''
|''No change''.
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|[[6L 2s]]||echinoid
|[[6L 2s]]||echinoid
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|[[7L 1s]]
|[[7L 1s]]
| colspan="4" |''No change.''
|''No change''.
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! colspan="5" |9-note mosses
! colspan="5" |9-note mosses
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|[[5L 4s]]
|[[5L 4s]]
| colspan="4" |''No change.''
|''No change''.
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|-
|[[6L 3s]]
|[[6L 3s]]
| colspan="4" |''No change.''
|''No change''.
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| rowspan="2" |[[7L 2s]]||superdiatonic
| rowspan="2" |[[7L 2s]]||superdiatonic
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|[[8L 1s]]
|[[8L 1s]]
| colspan="4" |''No change.''
|''No change''.
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! colspan="5" |10-note mosses
! colspan="5" |10-note mosses
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|[[3L 7s]]
|[[3L 7s]]
| colspan="4" |''No change.''
| colspan="4" |
|-
|-
|[[4L 6s]]||dipentic
|[[4L 6s]]||dipentic
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|[[5L 5s]]
|[[5L 5s]]
| colspan="4" |''No change.''
| colspan="4" |
|-
|-
|[[6L 4s]]||antidipentic
|[[6L 4s]]||antidipentic
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|[[9L 1s]]
|[[9L 1s]]
| colspan="4" |''No change.''
|''No change''.
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! colspan="5" |Mosses with more than 10 notes
! colspan="5" |Mosses with more than 10 notes
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