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The following names are suggested for selected small mosses. These names are optional; interval size names and step ratio names can be combined with conventional ''xL ys'' names. For example: ''21edo is the soft [[5L 3s]] tuning and its major mosthird is a neutral third of size 342.9 cents.''

Some of ~~these~~ come from older temperament-agnostic mos names, such as names (such as ''mosh'') from [[Graham Breed]]'s [[mos naming#Graham_Breed.27s_naming_scheme|mos names]]. Some are named by taking an arbitrary temperament that generates the scale (preferably in the mos's [[proper]] range) and suffixing ''-oid''. These names have been coined so that mosses can be discussed more independently of RTT temperaments (while drawing on an established RTT tradition in the xen community which may help make the names more meaningful to more people).

Some of the names come from older temperament-agnostic mos names, such as names (such as ''mosh'') from [[Graham Breed]]'s [[mos naming#Graham_Breed.27s_naming_scheme|mos names]]. Some are named by taking an arbitrary temperament that generates the scale (preferably in the mos's [[proper]] range) and suffixing ''-oid''. These names have been coined so that mosses can be discussed more independently of RTT temperaments (while drawing on an established RTT tradition in the xen community which may help make the names more meaningful to more people).

1L ns names are not given because the generator can be anywhere from the octave to to 1\(n+1) and those scales can better be viewed as subsets of larger mosses, for example [[1L 6s]] as a subset of [[7L 1s]].

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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, 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.

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 The following names are suggested for selected small mosses. These names are optional; interval size names and step ratio names can be combined with conventional ''xL ys'' names. For example: ''21edo is the soft [[5L 3s]] tuning and its major mosthird is a neutral third of size 342.9 cents.''
-Some of these come from older temperament-agnostic mos names, such as names (such as ''mosh'') from [[Graham Breed]]'s [[mos naming#Graham_Breed.27s_naming_scheme|mos names]]. Some are named by taking an arbitrary temperament that generates the scale (preferably in the mos's [[proper]] range) and suffixing ''-oid''. These names have been coined so that mosses can be discussed more independently of RTT temperaments (while drawing on an established RTT tradition in the xen community which may help make the names more meaningful to more people).
+Some of the names come from older temperament-agnostic mos names, such as names (such as ''mosh'') from [[Graham Breed]]'s [[mos naming#Graham_Breed.27s_naming_scheme|mos names]]. Some are named by taking an arbitrary temperament that generates the scale (preferably in the mos's [[proper]] range) and suffixing ''-oid''. These names have been coined so that mosses can be discussed more independently of RTT temperaments (while drawing on an established RTT tradition in the xen community which may help make the names more meaningful to more people).
 L ns names are not given because the generator can be anywhere from the octave to to 1\(n+1) and those scales can better be viewed as subsets of larger mosses, for example [[1L 6s]] as a subset of [[7L 1s]].
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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, 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.