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There are at least hundreds, probably thousands, of [[rank-2 temperament]]s described. It can be difficult to know where to start. | There are at least hundreds, probably thousands, of [[rank-2 temperament]]s described. It can be difficult to know where to start. | ||
This page is intended | This page is intended to narrow the field a little, by showing you the temperaments that get talked about a lot within the xenharmonic community. It does not aim to list every temperament. Instead it aims to list only the ones that are of high interest to a sizeable number of theorists or composers. | ||
Composers and theorists disagree amongst themselves about what properties are desirable in a temperament, and you might over time find that you lean more towards one camp or another. This list arranges temperaments by their properties | Composers and theorists disagree amongst themselves about what properties are desirable in a temperament, and you might over time find that you lean more towards one particular camp or another. This list arranges popular temperaments by their properties in a table allowing the views of all ‘camps’ to get a space on the page. | ||
'''Tl;dr, you can think of this as a table of what temperaments are popular among theorists and/or composers. These are the ones lots of people are talking about.''' | '''Tl;dr, you can think of this as a table of what temperaments are popular among theorists and/or composers. These are the ones lots of people are talking about.''' | ||