Talk:Periods and generators

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Stacks of Generators

"Stacks of Generators" appears on this page and several other pages and creates considerable confusion, especially on other pages.

In principle, on the page of the original definition "stack of generators" can be understood correctly, but only in this context. It would work if the notion of the "generator" was segregated from the notion of the "result of generation". Without it, the generator is understood in two different senses: 1) as the interval, 2) and as the result of adding an interval to some tone repeatedly, something which could be understood not as interval, but "interval instance". Actually it's just "tone", but in its abstract understanding, abstracted out from its base frequency. Then the "chain" would be a chain of tones.

When "stack of generators" is used another context, it makes things much less clear, because the plural form of "generators" suggests that it can be a set of different intervals. That is, in a separate context nothing tells the reader that this is the same interval, applied to some tone or not. The links don't make things much better.

I seriously suggest re-phrasing this part.