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==Prospective history==
==Prospective history==


In the late 18th century British people gravitated towards equipentatonic scales for their pentatonic folk melodies, and they divided their pentatonic 'step' into two parts to allow for consonant triads. They discovered that the [0 3 6] triad was actually the most consonant in 10edo. Hence, the neopentatonicist style was the original method of 10edo composition when it first existed.
During the French Revolution, the music of earlier French composers was abandoned in favour of a purer, "more French", decimal music. This succeeded in this universe, however, and the 10-note system spread throughout the entirety of continental Europe within thirty years, with younger composers picking it up and older composers vehemently despising it.
 
Then the French Revolution happened. France formed an alliance with Britain due to the former realizing the latter have a 10-tone system. Hence France, who decided to turn everything metric, promoted the British 10-note system to the rest of Europe. The British colonies at the time were the first to pick this up, then the rest of continental Europe, starting with the Netherlands.


The equivalent of the Second Viennese School in this universe, the New Pythagoreans, were a group of cultists from America and England who believed that the decimal sequences of irrational numbers held the key to greater understanding of the universe, because of 'music of the spheres' and whatnot. The first New Pythagorean composer was William Shanks who was in love with the sequence 4592307816, as it is the first pandigital sequence in pi, and used it as a tone row in his magnum opus, Symphony in Pi. To this day this sequence of intervals is known as the Shanks row or the Shanks motif.
The equivalent of the Second Viennese School in this universe, the New Pythagoreans, were a group of cultists from America and England who believed that the decimal sequences of irrational numbers held the key to greater understanding of the universe, because of 'music of the spheres' and whatnot. The first New Pythagorean composer was William Shanks who was in love with the sequence 4592307816, as it is the first pandigital sequence in pi, and used it as a tone row in his magnum opus, Symphony in Pi. To this day this sequence of intervals is known as the Shanks row or the Shanks motif.
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==Music==
==Music==


[[Media:Introduction_and_Waltz.mp3|Introduction and Waltz]], a short piece by Thomas Cunning, in the neopentatonicist style (dated to about 1790)
[[Media:Introduction_and_Waltz.mp3|Introduction and Waltz]], a short piece by Thomas Cunning, in the neopentatonicist style (dated to about 1820)


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