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== Evaluation ==

~~Graham Breed [http://x31eq.com/meantone.htm writes]: ''~~I think of this as the standard melodic meantone because the all these ratios are the same. It has the mellow sound of 1/4 comma, but does still have a character of its own. Some algorithms make this almost exactly the optimum 5-limit tuning. It's fairly good as a 7-limit tuning as well. Almost the optimum (according to me) for diminished sevenths. I toyed with this as a guitar tuning, but rejected it because 4:6:9 chords aren't quite good enough. That is, the poor fifth leads to a sludgy major ninth.''

I think of this as the standard melodic meantone because the all these ratios are the same. It has the mellow sound of 1/4 comma, but does still have a character of its own. Some algorithms make this almost exactly the optimum 5-limit tuning. It's fairly good as a 7-limit tuning as well. Almost the optimum (according to me) for diminished sevenths. I toyed with this as a guitar tuning, but rejected it because 4:6:9 chords aren't quite good enough. That is, the poor fifth leads to a sludgy major ninth.

</blockquote>

—[http://x31eq.com/meantone.htm#pop Graham Breed]

== ~~Listening~~ ==

== Music ==

* [http://www.io.com/~hmiller/midi/canon-golden.mid An acoustic experience] - Kornerup himself had no chance to have it - is contained in the [[Warped ~~canon~~]] collection.

* [http://www.io.com/~hmiller/midi/canon-golden.mid An acoustic experience]{{dead link}} - Kornerup himself had no chance to have it – is contained in the [[Warped Canon]] collection.

* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwAsBxE7pj0 ~~Bach's~~ Ricercar a 6] ~~- Tuned~~ into golden meantone by [[Claudi Meneghin]]

* {{w|J. S. Bach}}'s [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwAsBxE7pj0 "Ricercar a 6" from ''The Musical Offering'', BWV 1079] (1747) – tuned into golden meantone by [[Claudi Meneghin]] (2021)

* [https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BwsXD8q2VCYURkRyZGZJbHhOaUk Liber Abaci] ~~- Composition~~ by Alex Ness, based on successive equal-tempered approximations of the Golden Meantone temperament

* [https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BwsXD8q2VCYURkRyZGZJbHhOaUk ''Liber Abaci''] – composition by [[Alex Ness]], based on successive equal-tempered approximations of the Golden Meantone temperament

== ~~Additional reading~~ ==

== See also ==

* [~~http://www.tonalsoft.com/enc/g/golden.aspx Golden meantone - Tonalsoft encyclopedia~~]

* [[Das Goldene Tonsystem|''Das Goldene Tonsystem'']]

* [~~https://en.xen.wiki/w/Logarithmic_approximants~~#~~Golden_temperaments~~ Golden temperaments]

* [[Logarithmic approximants #Golden temperaments]]

* [[Mercury meantone]] - effectively a stretched-octaves version of golden meantone

* [[Mercury meantone]] – effectively a stretched-octaves version of golden meantone

== External links ==

* [http://www.tonalsoft.com/enc/g/golden.aspx Tonalsoft Encyclopedia | ''Golden meantone'']

[[Category:Meantone]]

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 == Evaluation ==
-Graham Breed [http://x31eq.com/meantone.htm writes]: ''I think of this as the standard melodic meantone because the all these ratios are the same. It has the mellow sound of 1/4 comma, but does still have a character of its own. Some algorithms make this almost exactly the optimum 5-limit tuning. It's fairly good as a 7-limit tuning as well. Almost the optimum (according to me) for diminished sevenths. I toyed with this as a guitar tuning, but rejected it because 4:6:9 chords aren't quite good enough. That is, the poor fifth leads to a sludgy major ninth.''
+<blockquote>
+I think of this as the standard melodic meantone because the all these ratios are the same. It has the mellow sound of 1/4 comma, but does still have a character of its own. Some algorithms make this almost exactly the optimum 5-limit tuning. It's fairly good as a 7-limit tuning as well. Almost the optimum (according to me) for diminished sevenths. I toyed with this as a guitar tuning, but rejected it because 4:6:9 chords aren't quite good enough. That is, the poor fifth leads to a sludgy major ninth.
+</blockquote>
+—[http://x31eq.com/meantone.htm#pop Graham Breed]
-== Listening ==
+== Music ==
-* [http://www.io.com/~hmiller/midi/canon-golden.mid An acoustic experience] - Kornerup himself had no chance to have it - is contained in the [[Warped canon]] collection.
+* [http://www.io.com/~hmiller/midi/canon-golden.mid An acoustic experience]{{dead link}} - Kornerup himself had no chance to have it – is contained in the [[Warped Canon]] collection.
-* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwAsBxE7pj0 Bach's Ricercar a 6] - Tuned into golden meantone by [[Claudi Meneghin]]
+* {{w|J. S. Bach}}'s [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwAsBxE7pj0 "Ricercar a 6" from ''The Musical Offering'', BWV 1079] (1747) – tuned into golden meantone by [[Claudi Meneghin]] (2021)
-* [https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BwsXD8q2VCYURkRyZGZJbHhOaUk Liber Abaci] - Composition by Alex Ness, based on successive equal-tempered approximations of the Golden Meantone temperament
+* [https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BwsXD8q2VCYURkRyZGZJbHhOaUk ''Liber Abaci''] – composition by [[Alex Ness]], based on successive equal-tempered approximations of the Golden Meantone temperament
-== Additional reading ==
+== See also ==
-* [http://www.tonalsoft.com/enc/g/golden.aspx Golden meantone - Tonalsoft encyclopedia]
+* [[Das Goldene Tonsystem|''Das Goldene Tonsystem'']]
-* [https://en.xen.wiki/w/Logarithmic_approximants#Golden_temperaments Golden temperaments]
+* [[Logarithmic approximants #Golden temperaments]]
-* [[Mercury meantone]] - effectively a stretched-octaves version of golden meantone
+* [[Mercury meantone]] – effectively a stretched-octaves version of golden meantone
+== External links ==
+* [http://www.tonalsoft.com/enc/g/golden.aspx Tonalsoft Encyclopedia | ''Golden meantone'']
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