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== Temperaments ==
== Temperaments ==
7EDO is the first EDO in which regular temperament theory starts to make sense as a way of subdividing the steps into [[mos]] scales, with three different ways of dividing it, although there is still quite a lot of ambiguity as each step can be considered as the sharp extreme of one temperament or the flat end of another. 1/7 can be considered the intersection of sharp [[porcupine]] and flat [[tetracot]] temperaments, as three steps makes a 4th and four a 5th. 2/7 can be interpreted as critically flat [[Mohajira]] or critically sharp [[amity]], and creates MOS's of 322 and 2221. 3/7 is on the intersection of [[meantone]] and [[mavila]], and has MOS's of 331 and 21211, meaning that 7edo is the first edo with a non-equalized, non-1Lns pentatonic mos. This is in part because 7edo is a [[strict zeta edo]] (close to low-complexity JI for its size), and is the second edo with a good fifth for its size (after [[5edo]]), the fifth serving as a generator for the edo's meantone and mavila interpertations.
7EDO is the first EDO in which regular temperament theory starts to make sense as a way of subdividing the steps into [[mos]] scales, with three different ways of dividing it, although there is still quite a lot of ambiguity as each step can be considered as the sharp extreme of one temperament or the flat end of another. 1/7 can be considered the intersection of sharp [[porcupine]] and flat [[tetracot]] temperaments, as three steps makes a 4th and four a 5th. 2/7 can be interpreted as critically flat [[Mohajira]] or critically sharp [[amity]], and creates MOS's of 322 and 2221. 3/7 is on the intersection of [[meantone]] and [[mavila]], and has MOS's of 331 and 21211, making 7edo the first edo with a non-equalized, non-1Lns pentatonic mos. This is in part because 7edo is a [[strict zeta edo]] (close to low-complexity JI for its size), and is the second edo with a good fifth for its size (after [[5edo]]), the fifth serving as a generator for the edo's meantone and mavila interpertations.


== Music ==
== Music ==