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(The choice of how to define ''diatonic'' isn't bound by history, since many other terms have different meanings depending on the historical musical system referred to, for example the ''enharmonic scale'' may refer to a chain-of-fifths-based scale with 12edo enharmonics not equated, or to an ancient Greek genus.)

== Proposal: Naming mos modes ==

For any mos pattern, TAMNAMS allows one to use a modified version of [[UDP notation]] to name a given mos's mode: for example, "5L 3s 5|" for LsLLsLLs. "5 up" here means that this mode has 5 [[chroma-positive]] generators stacked up from the tonic. We skip the number of chroma-positive generators down and the number of periods, which are redundant though these are required by standard UDP notation.

For any mos pattern, TAMNAMS allows one to use a modified version of [[UDP notation]] to name a given mos's mode: for example, "5L 3s 5|" for LsLLsLLs, read "5 ell 3 ess 5 up". "5 up" here means that this mode has 5 [[chroma-positive]] generators stacked up from the tonic. We skip the number of chroma-positive generators down and the number of periods, which are redundant though these are required by standard UDP notation.

For an altered mode we can use any accidental alteration whose meaning is clear. For non-diatonic mosses, the degree modified is indicated using TAMNAMS's 0-indexing convention. For example, LsLsLLLs can be written "5L 3s 5| @4d" (read "5L 3s 5 up at-4-degree"), using the @ accidental from [[diamond-mos notation]]. Using this convention, any mode of any mos can be referred to without introducing new mode names to memorize.

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 (The choice of how to define ''diatonic'' isn't bound by history, since many other terms have different meanings depending on the historical musical system referred to, for example the ''enharmonic scale'' may refer to a chain-of-fifths-based scale with 12edo enharmonics not equated, or to an ancient Greek genus.)
 == Proposal: Naming mos modes ==
-For any mos pattern, TAMNAMS allows one to use a modified version of [[UDP notation]] to name a given mos's mode: for example, "5L 3s 5|" for LsLLsLLs. "5 up" here means that this mode has 5 [[chroma-positive]] generators stacked up from the tonic. We skip the number of chroma-positive generators down and the number of periods, which are redundant though these are required by standard UDP notation.
+For any mos pattern, TAMNAMS allows one to use a modified version of [[UDP notation]] to name a given mos's mode: for example, "5L 3s 5|" for LsLLsLLs, read "5 ell 3 ess 5 up". "5 up" here means that this mode has 5 [[chroma-positive]] generators stacked up from the tonic. We skip the number of chroma-positive generators down and the number of periods, which are redundant though these are required by standard UDP notation.
 For an altered mode we can use any accidental alteration whose meaning is clear. For non-diatonic mosses, the degree modified is indicated using TAMNAMS's 0-indexing convention. For example, LsLsLLLs can be written "5L 3s 5| @4d" (read "5L 3s 5 up at-4-degree"), using the @ accidental from [[diamond-mos notation]]. Using this convention, any mode of any mos can be referred to without introducing new mode names to memorize.