User:BudjarnLambeth/Table of n-comma meantone generators
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Here are all meantone tunings that can be written in the form "n-comma meantone", where the syntonic comma (81/80) is being divided and n is a fraction between -1 and 1 with a denominator 22 or smaller.
Temperaments that fall outside of the "historically considered meantone", or even the diamond monotone, range will not provide most of the properties that meantone usually provides, but they are included for completeness.
Scope
A small number of additional temperaments are included. Not too many, to avoid clutter, just the bare minimum:
- 7, 12, 17 and 5 edos (to delineate MOS shapes)
- any tunings listed under "historical temperaments" (e.g. 4/25-comma), but only the ones of the form "n-comma".
Dozens of tunings on this table are significant to negative harmony temperament theory, enough that labelling them all individually would clutter the table.
All tunings on this table are close (within 1/2 degree of closing) to some arbitrarily large EDO, but labeling them beyond 100edo would clutter the table.
Flatter than flattest allowed historical meantone
Historically considered meantone
Temperament | Generator (cents) | Comments |
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1/2-comma meantone | 691.202 | Close to 92edo, 59edo. Historically significant (see historical temperaments). Everything up to this point does not meet the original historical definition of meantone (the whole tone being between 10/9 and 9/8). |
10/21-comma meantone | 691.714 | |
9/19-comma meantone | 691.768 | Close to 85edo |
8/17-comma meantone | 691.834 | |
7/15-comma meantone | 691.919 | |
6/13-comma meantone | 692.029 | |
5/11-comma meantone | 692.179 | |
9/20-comma meantone | 692.277 | Close to 26edo |
4/9-comma meantone | 692.397 | |
7/16-comma meantone | 692.546 | |
3/7-comma meantone | 692.738 | |
8/19-comma meantone | 692.899 | |
5/12-comma meantone | 692.994 | Close to 71edo |
7/17-comma meantone | 693.099 | |
2/5-comma meantone | 693.352 | Close to 45edo |
7/18-comma meantone | 693.591 | |
5/13-comma meantone | 693.683 | |
Split Golden ratio-comma meantone | 693.740 | Close to 64edo |
8/21-comma meantone | 693.762 | |
3/8-comma meantone | 693.890 | Close to 83edo |
7/19-comma meantone | 694.032 | |
4/11-comma meantone | 694.134 | Almost exactly 1/3-Pythagorean comma meantone |
5/14-comma meantone | 694.274 | |
6/17-comma meantone | 694.365 | |
7/20-comma meantone | 694.428 | |
8/23-comma meantone | 694.475 | |
9/26-comma meantone | 694.511 | |
1/3-comma meantone | 694.786 | Close to 19edo. Historically significant (see historical temperaments). |
6/19-comma meantone | 695.164 | |
5/16-comma meantone | 695.234 | |
4/13-comma meantone | 695.338 | |
3/10-comma meantone | 695.503 | Close to 88edo and Lucy tuning. Historically significant (see historical temperaments). |
5/17-comma meantone | 695.630 | Close to 69edo. |
7/24-comma meantone | 695.682 | |
2/7-comma meantone | 695.810 | Historically significant (see historical temperaments). |
5/18-comma meantone | 695.981 | Close to 50edo. |
3/11-comma meantone | 696.090 | |
7/26-comma meantone | 696.165 | Close to golden meantone. Historically significant (see historical temperaments). |
4/15-comma meantone | 696.220 | |
5/19-comma meantone | 696.295 | Close to 81edo. |
1/4-comma meantone | 696.578 | Historically significant (see historical temperaments). |
5/21-comma meantone | 696.834 | Close to 31edo. |
4/17-comma meantone | 696.895 | |
3/13-comma meantone | 696.992 | Close to septimal & tridecimal meantone CTE tunings. |
2/9-comma meantone | 697.176 | Close to 5-limit and undecimal meantone CTE tunings. Historically significant (see historical temperaments). |
3/14-comma meantone | 697.346 | Close to 74edo. Historically significant (see historical temperaments). |
4/19-comma meantone | 697.427 | |
1/5-comma meantone | 697.654 | Close to 43edo. Historically significant (see historical temperaments). |
4/21-comma meantone | 697.859 | |
3/16-comma meantone | 697.923 | |
2/11-comma meantone | 698.045 | Close to 55edo. Historically significant (see historical temperaments). |
3/17-comma meantone | 698.159 | |
1/6-comma meantone | 698.371 | Historically significant (see historical temperaments). Everything up to this point has a fifth which is noticeably flat of Pythagorean tuning. |
4/25-comma meantone | 698.514 | Close to 67edo. |
3/19-comma meantone | 698.559 | |
2/13-comma meantone | 698.646 | Close to 79edo. |
3/20-comma meantone | 698.729 | |
1/7-comma meantone | 698.883 | Close to 91edo. Historically significant (see historical temperaments). |
2/15-comma meantone | 699.088 | |
1/8-comma meantone | 699.267 | |
2/17-comma meantone | 699.425 | |
1/9-comma meantone | 699.565 | |
2/19-comma meantone | 699.691 | |
1/10-comma meantone | 699.804 | |
2/21-comma meantone | 699.907 | |
1/11-comma meantone | 700.000 | Everything up to this point generates 12 and 19 tone MOS scales. |
12edo | 700.000 | The largest MOS scale this can generate is 12 tone. Historically significant (see historical temperaments.) |
1/12-comma meantone | 700.163 | Everything from this point onwards generates 12 and 17 tone MOS scales. |
1/13-comma meantone | 700.301 | |
1/14-comma meantone | 700.419 | |
1/15-comma meantone | 700.521 | |
1/16-comma meantone | 700.611 | |
1/17-comma meantone | 700.690 | |
1/18-comma meantone | 700.760 | |
1/19-comma meantone | 700.823 | |
1/20-comma meantone | 700.879 | |
1/21-comma meantone | 700.931 |