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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. | 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 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. | 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. | ||
'''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.''' | '''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.''' | ||
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And these are not the only possible stances, either! There is a Xenharmonicist C, Xenharmonist D, etc. Thousands of differing individual perspectives on what traits see important in a temperament. | And these are not the only possible stances, either! There is a Xenharmonicist C, Xenharmonist D, etc. Thousands of differing individual perspectives on what traits see important in a temperament. | ||
So how do you | So how do you get your head around all these wide ranging perspectives? | ||
It might help to compare these temperaments to [[12edo]], a.k.a. the familiar 12-tone equal temperament which most modern music is tuned to by default. 12edo has, of course, 12 notes per equave, which makes it fairly small by temperament standards (but not abnormally so). | It might help to compare these temperaments to [[12edo]], a.k.a. the familiar 12-tone equal temperament which most modern music is tuned to by default. 12edo has, of course, 12 notes per equave, which makes it fairly small by temperament standards (but not abnormally so). | ||