Temperament naming: Difference between revisions

; [[Alphatricot]]

: Origin: Paul Erlich (2002)

: Meaning: A restructuring of the phrase ''acute minor third'', as the ideal generator for amity is between a minor third and neutral third. See the temperament's dedicate page for sources.  

; [[Augmented (temperament)|Augmented]]

: Origin: Paul Erlich and Carl Lumma (2002)

: Meaning: "Augmented" gets its name from its 1/3-octave period, corresponding to an augmented triad.<ref>[https://yahootuninggroupsultimatebackup.github.io/tuning/topicId_34327#34708 Yahoo! Tuning Groups | ''new equal temperament 5-limit error lattices''] - "i think carl and i just came to the consensus here that … the [temperament] you're calling 'diesic' should be called 'augmented'. besides the reasons already given … the period of the 'augmented' linear temperament is 1/3 octave (thus outlining an augmented triad)." —Paul Erlich</ref>

: Meaning: Keenan Pepper suggested it was a good name of a weird spiral-shaped animal, for a temperament in the porcupine family (like nautilus)

; [[A-team]]

: Origin: Igliashon Jones (2011)

; [[Augene]]

: Originally tripletone, in analogy with twintone, but when twintone was renamed pajara Paul Erlich suggested it should be augene, after augmented and Gene Smith.

; [[Avila]]

: Origin: Mike Battaglia, Ron Sword, Ryan Avella (2011)

: Meaning: Named for the 19\64 generator, since 1964 is the year the Beatlemania swept the world.<ref>[https://yahootuninggroupsultimatebackup.github.io/tuning-math/topicId_5279.html#5299 Yahoo! Tuning Group | ''Poptimal generators'']</ref>

; [[Blackwood]]

: Origin: Gene Ward Smith and Paul Erlich (2002)<ref>[https://yahootuninggroupsultimatebackup.github.io/tuning-math/topicId_4554.html Yahoo! Tuning Group | ''Modified best 5-limit geometric list'']</ref><ref>[https://yahootuninggroupsultimatebackup.github.io/tuning-math/topicId_5080.html Yahoo! Tuning Group | ''Ultimate 5-limit comma list'']</ref>

; [[Breed (temperament)|Breed]]

: Origin: Gene Ward Smith (2004)

: Named after [[Graham Breed]]. See [[breedsma]] for sources.

; [[Catakleismic]]

: Meaning: The "cata" prefix means "down", and the catakleismic generator is very slightly down from the hanson generator, a temperament called "kleismic" until Paul Erlich decided the name must and shall be changed.

; [[Catler]]

: Named for [[Jon Catler]].

: Meaning: 3/2 is divided into 2 equal parts, hence "di-". Not sure why "-cot". "-Cot" has been suggested to originate from "cotyledon", the name for the embryo of a plant seed.

; [[Diminished (temperament)|Diminished and dimipent]]

: Origin: Paul Erlich and Carl Lumma (2002)

: This naming system was unpopular,<ref>[https://yahootuninggroupsultimatebackup.github.io/tuning-math/topicId_10620#10640 Yahoo! Tuning Group | ''Gene's mail server''] - "Anyway, since these names are so ugly, does ''anyone'' have suggestions for renaming them (Dimipent, Dimisept, Negripent, Negrisept, Sensipent, Sensisept) that preserves their approximate alphabetical location?" —Paul Erlich</ref><ref>[https://yahootuninggroupsultimatebackup.github.io/tuning-math/topicId_12957 Yahoo! Tuning Group | ''98 named 7-limit temperaments''] - Shows that there was some support for the -sept prefix from Gene Ward Smith still at this time.</ref> and did not catch on.<ref>[https://yahootuninggroupsultimatebackup.github.io/tuning/topicId_104603#104603 Yahoo! Tuning Group | ''Subgroup temperament naming''] - "The thing we're doing now is analogous to Paul [Erlich]'s having different names for 'negripent' and 'negrisept' and such, which also didn't catch on." —Mike Battaglia</ref> In the case of negri, both negripent and negrisept fell out of use, and the modern convention of giving strong extensions the exact same name (distinguishing them as necessary with "septimal", etc.) was adopted instead, so both the 5-limit and 7-limit were called "negri". For diminished and sensi, however, these became the names for the 7-limit temperaments, while "dimipent" and "sensipent" stuck as names for the 5-limit temperaments. Because these originally 5-limit-specific names both also became the names for their entire temperament families, we can say that the "-pent" suffix in these two cases has lost its original (and indeed all) meaning.

: Confusingly, in [[Jean-Philippe Rameau]]'s [[Treatise on Harmony]] from 1722, he called [[2048/2025]] the "diminished comma", and so in a way "diminished temperament" should already have been considered taken; the modern name for 2048/2025, the diaschisma, which gives its name to the diaschismic temperament, comes from [[Hermann von Helmholtz]] much later, in 1875.<ref>[https://yahootuninggroupsultimatebackup.github.io/tuning/topicId_62661#62683 Yahoo! Tuning Groups | ''Diaschisma article'']</ref> The interval [[648/625]], the modern "diminished comma" by virtue of it being the one diminished temperament makes vanish, has been called the "major diesis" or "greater diesis",<ref>[[Wikipedia: Diesis]]</ref> and so "major diesic" was also proposed as a name for this temperament.<ref>[https://yahootuninggroupsultimatebackup.github.io/tuning-math/topicId_2064#2067 Yahoo! Tuning Groups | ''Kleismic & co'']</ref> This would have gone along with [[128/125]] being the "(minor/lesser) diesis" and thus "minor diesic" temperament. Despite this not working out this way (due in part to too many things being named using "diesis"), in the end "diminished" and "augmented" still came out as an opposing pair. 

: Meaning: It's meantone which calls the dominant seventh chord a 4:5:6:7. It is one of the least complex 7-limit extensions of meantone.

; [[Doublewide]]

: Named after a type of mobile home.

: Meaning: Ennealimmal has a 1/9-octave period, hence "ennea-"; the period is very close to the large limma, [[27/25]], hence "limmal".

; [[Ervsec]]

; [[Father]]

: Origin: 2000s?

: Meaning: A combination of the words "fourth" and "third". This is meant to represent the unification of perfect fourths and major thirds in Father temperament.

; [[Flattone]]

: Meaning: A variant of meantone in which the whole tone is flatter than in septimal meantone.

; [[Glacial]]

: Origin: Igliashon Jones, Mike Battaglia (2012)

; [[Godzilla]]

: Meaning: Named after a Japanese fictional monster; part of the daikaiju series of names for temperaments with an approximate 8/7 as generator.

; [[Gravity]]

: Origin: Mike Battaglia (2011)

: Larry Hanson's 34-edo guitar (9\34 generator)

; [[Harry]]

: Derived from a theory that you might be able to play the music of Harry Partch in it without driving him nuts so long as you didn't say that was what you were doing.

: So named because it is in the ''porcupine'' family, but different.

; [[Heinz]]

: Named after the fact that 26\57 is a possible generator, and the words "57 varieties" are found on the bottle labels of a popular brand of ketchup called "Heinz", so the connection is based on the presence of the number 57. It does not seem to be related in any way to [[Heinz Bohlen]].

; [[Helmholtz (temperament)|Helmholtz]]

: So named because [[Hermann von Helmholtz]] proposed 1/8-schisma flattened fifths.

: Origin: Paul Erlich

: Meaning: Named after an Ethiopian flatbread because 26edo represents it well, and the Ethiopian alphabet has 26 consonants.

; [[Jamesbond]]

: Named from the fact that the wedgie is {{multival| 0 0 7 … }}

: Meaning: Name of a variety of tea which could fit into the same space as "keenan" and replace it.

: Keemun (simplified Chinese: <span style="font-family:SimSun">祁门红茶</span>; traditional Chinese: <span style="font-family:SimSun">祁門紅茶</span>; pinyin: qímén hóngchá; literally "Qimen red tea") is a black Chinese tea with a winey and fruity taste, designated as a China Famous Tea. It was given this name in Paul Erlich's Middle Path paper on the suggestion of Herman "Teamouse" Miller, thereby ending the unfortunate practice of calling this temperament, a 7-limit extension of hanson with a much lower accuracy, by the name "kleismic" also.

; [[Mabila]]

: Origin: Gene Ward Smith, Ryan Avella (2011)

: Origin: Mike Battaglia (2011)<ref>[https://yahootuninggroupsultimatebackup.github.io/tuning/topicId_96074.html Yahoo! Tuning Group | ''Ridiculously awesome 6&11 2.3.7.11.13 subgroup temperament'']</ref>

: Meaning: Because it sounded like a 4:7:9:11 machine.

; [[Magic]]

: Meaning: Graham named it "magic" by analogy with miracle; he was listening to the Fleetwood Mac song "You Make Loving Fun" that uses the word "miracle" at the time. Later he coined the backronym "multiple approximations generated iteratively and consistently" also by analogy with miracle.

; [[Marvel]]

: Origin: Gene Ward Smith (2003)

: Meaning: Named after the Chopi village of Mavila in Mozambique, known for their use near-equal heptatonic scales. Nobody can agree on how to pronounce this word. See the temperament's dedicated page for sources.

; [[Meantone]]

: Meaning: Named so because it maps the major whole tone (9/8) and the minor whole tone (10/9) to the same interval, which is near the average of the two tones in ideal tunings.

; [[Migration]]

: Meaning: A temperament closely related to mohajira, which means "migrating".

: Origin: Paul Erlich (May 2001?)

: Double meaning: It is a miracle that this scale is so accurate! And it is an acronym "Multiple Integer Ratios Approximated Consistently, Linearly and Evenly."

; [[Mohajira]]

: Origin: Jacques Dudon

: Meaning: Named after a Japanese fictional monster: a daikaiju name for a temperament with ~8/7 generator. Mothra has defeated Godzilla more times than any other daikaiju; the musical meaning of this fact is at best speculative.

; [[Myna]]

: Myna is related to starling, the 126/125 planar temperament, and a myna is a member of the starling family (Sturnidae). Myna is also a play on minor third, the generator.

; [[Negri]]

: Origin: Paul Erlich (2001)

: Meaning: 3/2 is divided into 8 equal parts, therefore "octa-".

; [[Orgone]]

: Origin: Andrew Heathwaite (2010)

: Meaning: An analogy between Wilhelm Reich's proposal for an invisible, ephemeral creative energy and the subtleties of the higher harmonics 7 and 11. Superkleismic can be viewed as orgone extended to the full 11-limit.

; [[Orwell]]

: Origin: Gene Ward Smith (2001)

: Origin: Originally (up to 2001) paultone and then twintone, in analogy with meantone, but Paul Erlich didn't like this and suggested pajara, after "Paul, John, and Ara," the three people jamming at his house at some random point in time.

; [[Porcupine]]

: Meaning: Named after Herman Miller's Mizarian Porcupine Overture in 15edo.

; [[Quadritikleismic]]

: Has a kleismic generator, so that (6/5)⁶ = 3, and four periods per octave, therefore quadri-.

; [[Rodan]]

: Meaning: Named after a Japanese fictional monster. A daikaiju name, from the 8/7 generator.

; [[Semaphore]]

: Meaning: semi-fourth, i.e. half of a 4/3.

; [[Semisept]]

: Meaning: semi-(septimal major sixth), i.e. half of a 12/7.<ref>Evidence for this interpretation can be found here, though the writer does not confirm it: [https://yahootuninggroupsultimatebackup.github.io/tuning-math/topicId_16972#16979 Yahoo! Tuning Group | ''Complete Rank 2 Temperament Searches'']</ref>

; [[Sensi]]

: Originally semisixths, but after it was decided that "bi" or "semi" should be half for periods and "hemi" should be half for generators, that was contracted to sensi.<ref>[https://yahootuninggroupsultimatebackup.github.io/tuning/topicId_97722.html#97733 ''Temperament names''] "The idea here is to use 'hemi' only when the generator is split in towo, not when the period is split in two." —Gene Ward Smith</ref>

: For more information on the origin of the "-pent" part of "sensipent", see [[#Dimipent|Dimipent]].

; [[Slendric]]

: Named after [[slendro]], because a just tuning for slendro may be realized as {{dash|8/7, 8/7, 147/128, 8/7, 7/6}}, with [[1029/1024]] as the difference between [[8/7]] and [[147/128]].<ref>Miller, L. E., & Lieberman, F. (1999). ''Lou Harrison and the American Gamelan''. American Music, 17(2), 146–178. https://doi.org/10.2307/3052712</ref>

: Named from the fact that the wedgie is {{multival| 4 16 9 … }}, which is 2², 4², 3².

; [[Starling]]

: The 126/125 planar temperament, named after Herman Miller's Starling scale. See the temperament's dedicated page for sources.  

; [[Srutal]]

: A name proposed by Paul Erlich because the 22-tone MOS looks a lot like the Indian Shruti scale.

; [[Superkleismic]]

: The 6/5 generator is ~322 cents, sharper than the kleismic 6/5, hence "super-". Can be restricted to 2.7.11 (orgone) or 2.5/3.7.11 (magicaltet).

; [[Superpyth]]

: Meaning: Fifths are sharper than the just ratio of 3/2, hence "Superpythagorean".  

; [[Tetracot]]

: Meaning: 3/2 is divided into 4 equal parts, hence "tetra-". Not sure why "-cot" (see Dicot above).

; [[Triforce]]

: Triforce has 3 periods per octave, hence tri-.

; [[Tritikleismic]]

: Tritikleismic has a kleismic generator, so that (6/5)⁶ = 3, and 3 periods per octave (therefore tri-.)

; [[Valentine]]

: Named for Robert C Valentine.

: Meaning: Black keys are to Blackwood as white keys are to Whitewood.

; [[Würschmidt]]

: Named for physicist José Würschmidt.