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''' | If one attempts to use '''2edo''' as an actual scale, it would divide the octave into two equal parts, each of size 600 cents, which is to say sqrt(2) as a frequency ratio. It represents the [[3-limit]] [[consistent]]ly, and it can be used to give a skeletonized version of the 3-limit music such as was used in Medieval Europe, by mapping the fifth and therefore the fourth to 600 cents. That entails mapping 81/64 to the unison, and if we do the same for 5/4 we end up with the val <2 3 4| (2c mapping). This could be used to crush all of the 5 out of 5-limit music, and to then attempt to turn what remains into neo-Medieval harmony. | ||
If we want to consider it to be a temperament, it tempers out 9/8. | If we want to consider it to be a temperament, it tempers out 9/8. | ||
Revision as of 22:59, 20 December 2020
If one attempts to use 2edo as an actual scale, it would divide the octave into two equal parts, each of size 600 cents, which is to say sqrt(2) as a frequency ratio. It represents the 3-limit consistently, and it can be used to give a skeletonized version of the 3-limit music such as was used in Medieval Europe, by mapping the fifth and therefore the fourth to 600 cents. That entails mapping 81/64 to the unison, and if we do the same for 5/4 we end up with the val <2 3 4| (2c mapping). This could be used to crush all of the 5 out of 5-limit music, and to then attempt to turn what remains into neo-Medieval harmony.
If we want to consider it to be a temperament, it tempers out 9/8.
Factoids about 2EDO
99/70 is a good rational representation of the square root of 2. It is the first zeta integral edo.
Compositions
Dichotomy by Kaiveran Lugheidh