Extended meantone notation: Difference between revisions

Most people are familiar with sharps and flats—these denote raising and lowering, respectively, by a chromatic semitone (note that in most tunings, the chromatic semitone and diatonic semitone are different sizes). In a general meantone tuning, there are two additional intervals: the diesis, the difference between adjacent accidentals (e.g. C♯–D♭ and D♯–E♭), and the kleisma, which is the amount by which B♯ exceeds C♭ and E♯ exceeds F♭—that is, C♭–B♯ and F♭–E♯.