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Whether they are frequent or one-of-a-kind, all questions are welcome here. When listing questions, list broad, general questions higher and niche, more specific questions lower. Answer each question on a separate page, linked to by the question.
About musical tuning
- What does “golden” refer to in “golden meantone”, “golden flattone”, etc?
- Rank-2 temperaments (of which meantone and flattone are two among many) generate MOS scales with two step sizes, large and small.
- Depending on what generator you use for the temperament, you can make the ratio between large:small different. For example you can have 3:1 meantone, 2:1 meantone, 3:2 meantone, etc. and the same goes for any other rank-2 temperament.
- If the ratio between the step sizes is the golden ratio, then the tuning is a golden tuning, such as “golden meantone”, “golden flattone” or similar.
- Golden tunings are one type of metallic MOS, along with silver tunings, bronze tunings and others.
About the wiki
- There's so much to read. Where do I start?
- The page Xen concepts for beginners is the best place to start.
- After that, check out General Theory for a list of foundational pages about musical tuning.
- What are this wiki's strengths and weaknesses? (How does it compare to other resources?)
- I am more interested in the way regular temperament theory looked before 2010, rather than the direction it has taken since 2020. Is there a wiki that preserves that?
- Yes. You can find that at the Legacy Xenharmonic Wiki.
About editing the wiki
- What are user space pages and main space pages?
- User space pages are pages titled "User:YourUsername/Topic". For example "User:JohnDoe/Major scale".
- Main space pages are pages without any prefix. For example "Major scale".
- How do I create a user page?
- Search "User:YourUsername/ThePageTitleYouWant" in the search bar (e.g. "User:JohnDoe/The arrowroot biscuit scale".
- It will then say "There is currently no text in this page. You can search for this page title in other pages, search the related logs, or create this page."
- Click "create this page" and then you will be taken to an editing window to create the user page.
- How can I add an inline citation or note?
- Put
<ref>The contents of the note</ref>at the place you want the little superscript number to appear. - Place
<references />at the place you want the list of references to appear. (If you do not specify this, it will default to the very bottom of the page.) - If you want to cite the same reference multiple times, give it a name e.g.
<ref name="Bob et al.">The contents of the note</ref>the first time you use it. - Then every subsequent time you can just use
<ref name="Bob et al." />without all the rest.
- Put
- I have another technical question similar to the previous two. Where can I find the answer?
- The answer is probably contained within the page Help:Editing.
Unanswered questions
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Todo: answer questions |
- How do I actually use a rank-3 temperament? (Please make a step-by-step guide of how to go from the 3 generators at the start, to a Scala file that works with Scale Workshop at the end? Every step of the way, explain like I’m five?)
in the mean time until this question is answered, see: Rank-3 temperament
in the mean time until this question is answered, see: Category:People
- Why do microtonal musicians argue so much? (And do they argue more than people in other fields of research?)
(You are encouraged to add more questions here)