User:Ganaram inukshuk/TAMNAMS
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TAMNAMS (read "tame names"; from Temperament-Agnostic Mos NAMing System), devised by the XA Discord in 2021, is a system of temperament-agnostic names for octave-equivalent moment of symmetry scales, their intervals and their associated generator ranges, and the ratios describing the proportion of large and small steps.
As opposed to referring to scales by temperament names followed by a note count, such as with meantone[7], names for mosses are referred to by a step pattern and a step ratio.
Step ratio spectrum
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Naming mos intervals
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Naming mos degrees
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Mos pattern names
TAMNAMS uses the following names for selected small mosses. These names are optional; interval size names and step ratio names can be combined with conventional xL ys names.
Some of the names come from older temperament-agnostic mos names, such as names (such as mosh) from Graham Breed's mos names. These names have been coined so that mosses can be discussed more independently of RTT temperaments. Sometimes the prefix has a different source than the scale name for euphonic reasons.
This list is maintained by User:Inthar and User:Godtone.
| 6-note mosses | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Name | Prefix[1] | Abbr.[2] | Etymology |
| 1L 5s | selenite, moonstone | sel- | sel | indirect reference to luna temperament |
| 2L 4s | malic | mal- | mal | apples have two concave ends, lemons have two pointy ends. |
| 3L 3s | triwood | triwd- | trw | from 3-wood |
| 4L 2s | citric | citro- | cit | parent mos of lemon and lime |
| 5L 1s | machinoid | mech- | mech | from machine temperament |
| 7-note mosses | ||||
| Pattern | Name | Prefix[1] | Abbr.[2] | Etymology |
| 1L 6s | onyx | on- | on | from a lot of naming puns |
| 2L 5s | antidiatonic | pel- | pel | pel- is from pelog |
| 3L 4s | mosh | mosh- | mosh | Graham Breed's name; from "mohajira-ish" |
| 4L 3s | smitonic | smi- | smi | from "sharp minor third" |
| 5L 2s | diatonic | dia- | dia | |
| 6L 1s | arch(a)eotonic | arch- | arch | originally a name for 13edo's 6L 1s |
| 8-note mosses | ||||
| Pattern | Name | Prefix[1] | Abbr.[2] | Etymology |
| 1L 7s | spinel | spin- | sp | contains the string "pine", referencing its sister mos |
| 2L 6s | subaric | subar- | subar | largest subset mos of jaric and taric |
| 3L 5s | checkertonic | check- | chk | from the Kite guitar checkerboard scale |
| 4L 4s | tetrawood; diminished | tetrawd- | ttw | from 4-wood |
| 5L 3s | oneirotonic | oneiro- | onei | originally a name for 13edo's 5L 3s |
| 6L 2s | ekic | ek- | ek | from temperaments echidna and hedgehog |
| 7L 1s | pine | pine- | pine | from porcupine temperament |
| 9-note mosses | ||||
| Pattern | Name | Prefix[1] | Abbr.[2] | Etymology |
| 1L 8s | agate | ag- | ag | rhymes with "eight", depending on one's pronunciation |
| 2L 7s | balzano | bal- /bæl/ | bal | from Balzano scale in 20edo which is 2L 7s |
| 3L 6s | tcherepnin | cher- | ch | common name |
| 4L 5s | gramitonic | gram- | gram | from "grave minor third" |
| 5L 4s | semiquartal | cthon- | cth | from "half fourth" and "chthonic" |
| 6L 3s | hyrulic | hyru- | hyru | allusion to triforce temperament |
| 7L 2s | superdiatonic; armotonic | arm- | arm | superdiatonic is a common name; arm- and armotonic references Armodue |
| 8L 1s | subneutralic | blu- | blu | derived from the generator being between supraminor and neutral quality. blu- is from bleu temperament |
| 10-note mosses | ||||
| Pattern | Name | Prefix[1] | Abbr.[2] | Etymology |
| 1L 9s | olivnie | oli- | oli | rhymes with "nine", depending on one's pronunciation |
| 2L 8s | jaric | jara- | jar | from temperaments pajara, injera and diaschismic |
| 3L 7s | sephiroid | seph- | seph | from sephiroth temperament |
| 4L 6s | lime | lime- | lime | limes/4L 6s's steps tend to be smaller than lemons/6L 4s's steps |
| 5L 5s | pentawood | pentawd- | pw | from 5-wood |
| 6L 4s | lemon | lem- | lem | from lemba temperament |
| 7L 3s | dicoid /'daɪˌkɔɪd/ | dico- | dico | from exotemperaments dichotic and dicot (dicoid) |
| 8L 2s | taric | tara- | tar | from Hindi aṭhārah '18' |
| 9L 1s | sinatonic | sina- | si | from sinaic |
Naming mos modes
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Generalization to non-mos scales
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Appendix
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