Survey of efficient temperaments by subgroup: Difference between revisions
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Only add temperaments if yourself, or at least a few other people, would recommend those temperaments. | Only add temperaments if yourself, or at least a few other people, would recommend those temperaments. | ||
== Why you should use my favorite temperament (editor opinions) == | == Why you should use my favorite temperament (individual wiki editor opinions) == | ||
In this section, any editor may create their own subheading, under which they may describe a specific temperament they like and why they think people should use it. | In this section, '''any editor may create their own subheading, under which they may describe a specific temperament they like and why they think people should use it'''. | ||
A single editor ''is'' allowed to add more than one temperament if they like. | |||
Editors, please use simple, plain language as much as you can - imagine you're explaining this to a stranger at a bar who has no music theory knowledge at all, but is curious about it. | Editors, ''please use simple, plain language'' as much as you can - imagine you're explaining this to a stranger at a bar who has no music theory knowledge at all, but is curious about it. | ||
Sort the explanations in alphabetical order (e.g. meantone, orwell, valentine). | |||
'''Note for readers:''' The following section of the page is a '''gallery of individual personal opinions'''. It is only here '''to give you a sampling of some of the many views''' of composers and theorists about specific temperaments. It is all opinion, not fact, you are free to take or discard any of it. | |||
;[[Orwell]] - ''recommended by [[User:BudjarnLambeth]] (2024)'' | |||
I recommend orwell temperament because it has a good approximation of the full 11-limit, which includes all the JI intervals that I can easily hear and recognise, and it does so with a relatively small number of notes, about 22. (Though you can also go up to 31 notes to approximate the 11-limit even better.) | |||
== I want a simpler, more straightforward overview == | == I want a simpler, more straightforward overview == | ||