TAMNAMS extension

This article or section contains multiple idiosyncratic terms. Such terms are used by only a few people and are not regularly used within the community. Terms: Many of the mos names described on this page are proposals and are not in common use.

This is a systematic extension for the TAMNAMS MOS scale naming system based on relationships of a named mos (parent, grandparent, great-grandparent, etc). It's intended for a user interface so that every MOS pattern has a memorable name. There's also a more euphonic version at least for User:Frostburn's taste.

Naming mos descendants

To name mosses that have more than 10 notes, names are based on how they're related to a parent mos (whether it's a child, grandchild, etc) and what step ratio produces that descendant, added as a prefix to the name. This section is currently work-in-progress and currently describes two systems devised by Frostburn and Ganaram inukshuk.

Base names

	Child (1st descendant)	Grandchild (2nd descendant)	Great-grandchild (3rd descendant)	kth descendant	Other notes
Frostburn's proposal	(prefix)-chro (parent's name)	(prefix)-enhar (grandparent's name)	(prefix)-(great-grandparent's name)
Ganaram's proposal	(prefix)-chromatic (mos-name) (prefix)-(mos-prefix)chromatic	(prefix)-enharmonic (mos-name) (prefix)-(mos-prefix)enharmonic	(prefix)-subchromatic (mos-name) (prefix)-(mos-prefix)subchromatic	kth-descendant (mos-name) kth-(mos-prefix)descendant	Prefixes are optional. Names are work-in-progress.

Step ratio prefixes

Parent mos		Child (1st descendant)				Grandchild (2nd descendant)				Great-grandchild (3rd descendant)
Mos	L:s range	Mos	Prefix		L:s range	Mos	Prefix		L:s range	Mos	Prefix		L:s range
			Frostburn	Ganaram			Frostburn	Ganaram			Frostburn	Ganaram
xL ys	1:1 to 1:0	(x + y)L xs	m-	s-	1:1 to 2:1 (general soft range)	(x + y)L (2x + y)s	f-	s-	1:1 to 3:2 (soft)	(x + y)L (3x + 2y)s	uso-	us-	1:1 to 4:3 (ultrasoft)
										(3x + 2y)L (x + y)s	paso-	ps-	4:3 to 3:2 (parasoft)
						(2x + y)L (x + y)s	m-	os-	3:2 to 2:1 (hyposoft)	(3x + 2y)L (2x + y)s	quso-	qs-	3:2 to 5:3 (quasisoft)
										(2x + y)L (3x + 2y)s	miso-	ms-	5:3 to 2:1 (minisoft)
		xL (x + y)s	p-	h-	2:1 to 1:0 (general hard range)	(2x + y)L xs	p-	oh-	2:1 to 3:1 (hypohard)	(2x + y)L (3x + y)s	miha-	mh-	2:1 to 5:2 (minihard)
										(3x + y)L (2x + y)s	quha-	qh-	5:2 to 3:1 (quasihard)
						xL (2x + y)s	s-	h-	3:1 to 1:0 (hard)	(3x + y)L xs	paha-	ph-	3:1 to 4:1 (parahard)
										xL (3x + y)s	uha-	uh-	4:1 to 1:0 (ultrahard)

Other MOS families

Wood scales

Trivial multi-MOS scales of k periods (mosses of the form kL ks) are named k-wood. If k is greater than 5 and no greater than 12, these can be written out as (Greek numeral prefix)wood, as shown in the table below.

MOS	Name	Prefix	Abbrev.
6L 6s	hexawood	hexwd-	hxw
7L 7s	heptawood	hepwd-	hpw
8L 8s	octawood	octwd-	ocw
9L 9s	enneawood	ennwd-	enw
10L 10s	decawood	decwd-	dkw
11L 11s	hendecawood	hedwd-	hdw
12L 12s	dodecawood	dodwd-	ddw
13L 13s	13-wood	13wd-	13w
14L 14s	14-wood	14wd-	14w
kL ks	k-wood	kwd	kw

Diatonic family

This system introduces the following names for (grand)daughters of diatonic 5L 2s.

Diatonic family tree

Daughters
Pattern	Name	Notes
5L 7s	p-chromatic	Chromatic scale from pythagorean generator 3/2. S-chromatic is an alternative name.
7L 5s	m-chromatic	Chromatic scale of meantone. F-chromatic is an alternative name.
Granddaughters
Pattern	Name	Notes
12L 5s	p-enharmonic	Enharmonic scale from pythagorean generator.
5L 12s	s-enharmonic	Enharmonic scale of superpyth.
12L 7s	m-enharmonic	Enharmonic scale of meantone.
7L 12s	f-enharmonic	Enharmonic scale of flattone.
Great-granddaughters
Pattern	Name	Notes
12L 17s	pythagotonic	29-tone scale from pythagorean generator. Large step is gothic comma, and small step is the Pythagorean comma.
17L 12s	gothitonic	Generator falls in the neo-gothic range.
19L 12s	fauxarabian	One possible generator is double of neutral third 11/9 while the scale still sounds neutral
12L 19s	fauxrussian	Faux-cyrilic font is the "opposite" of faux-arabic
17L 5s	protofractalic	Daughter scales exhibit fractal-like acoustic effects
5L 17s	reinhardic	Possible generator 50/33 is similar to 5edo's fifth (Reinhard notation)
19L 7s	velic	Possible generator 112/75 is called the marvelous fifth
7L 19s	siskoic	Play on words: Veli means brother in Finnish and sisko means sister.
Great-great-granddaughters
Pattern	Name	Notes
12L 29s	pythamystonic	41-tone scale from pythagorean generator. Large step is mystery comma, and small step is pythagorean comma.
29L 12s	antipythamystonic
12L 31s	fauxmuscovian	Parent is fauxrussian. Muscovy is a sub region of Russia.
31L 12s	fauxsiberian	Parent is fauxrussian. Siberia is a sub region of Russia.
19L 31s	fauxsaudi	Parent is fauxarabian. Saudis live in a sub region of Arabia.
31L 19s	fauxomani	Parent is fauxarabian. Omani live in a sub region of Arabia.
22L 17s	fractalic	Exhibits fractal-like acoustic effects.
17L 22s	antifractalic
17L 29s	perotinic	Parent is gothitonic. Pérotin has been described as the first modern composer in the Western tradition.
29L 17s	martinic	Parent is gothitonic. Simone Martini influenced Gothic style painting.
19L 26s	veljentyttonic	Parent is velic. Veljentyttö means niece from the brother's side in Finnish.
26L 19s	veljenpoikanic	Parent is velic. Veljenpoika means nephew from the brother's side in Finnish.
7L 26s	siskontyttonic	Parent is siskoic. Siskontyttö means niece from the sister's side in Finnish.
26L 7s	siskonpoikanic	Parent is siskoic. Siskonpoika means nephew from the sister's side in Finnish.
5L 22s	reinatonic	Parent is reinhardic.
22L 5s	antireinatonic	Parent is reinhardic.
Great-great-great-granddaughters
Pattern	Name	Notes
12L 41s	antipythomerc
41L 12s	pythomerc	53-tone scale from pythagorean generator. Transitional scale between ones dominated by pythagorean and mercator commas.

Other MOS names

Specific names for mosses with 11 to 15 notes

11-note mosses
Pattern	Suggested name(s)	Proposed by	Reasoning
1L 10s	tanzanite or tenorite	Ganaram inukshuk	More naming puns (tenzanite or tenorite). Prefix is tan-.
3L 8s	isodiaphoric	Lériendil	In reference to the isodifferential suspended chord, generated by (sqrt(17) + 1)/4 = 428.422 ¢.
4L 7s	kleistonic		Restoration of a noteworthy, former name. References the kleismic family of temperaments. Prefix is klei-. Extension name is p-chro smitonic, hard-chromatic smitonic, or hard smichromatic, depending on scheme.
5L 6s	mothroid	CompactStar	In reference to the mothra temperament.
	slentonic	Inthar	In reference to the slendric temperament.
6L 5s	amsochromic	Lériendil	See the page.
7L 4s	suprasmitonic		Restoration of a noteworthy, former name. Extension name is m-chro smitonic, soft-chromatic smitonic, or soft smichromatic, depending on scheme. Prefix is susmi-.
	daemotonic	Eliora	Various reasons; see 7L 4s.
8L 3s	flanatonic	Inthar	In reference to "flat naiadic".
9L 2s	villatonic	Ganaram inukshuk	Indirectly references avila and casablanca temperaments. Prefix is vil-.
	ultradiatonic, superarmotonic	CompactStar	In reference to diatonic and armotonic.
12-note mosses
Pattern	Suggested name(s)	Proposed by	Reasoning
1L 11s	helenite	Ganaram inukshuk	In reference to the "ele" substring found in the word "eleven". Prefix is hel-.
2L 10s	thalassic	Lériendil	Antonym to "telluric" (10L 2s).
5L 7s	p-chromatic		Restoration of a noteworthy, former name.
6L 6s	hexawood		Extension of -wood scales; coincidentally references hexe temperament.
7L 5s	m-chromatic		Restoration of a noteworthy, former name.
10L 2s	telluric	Lériendil	In reference to the MODMOS scale of "tellurian" (LLLsLLLLLLsL).
13-note mosses
Pattern	Suggested name(s)	Proposed by	Reasoning
1L 12s	zircon	Ganaram inukshuk	Zircon is used as a birthstone for December. Prefix is zir-.
4L 9s	paragonic	Lériendil
8L 5s	aureate	Lériendil	In reference to the golden sequence.
10L 3s	luachoid		In reference to the Luach modes.
11L 2s	hendecoid	Eliora	From Greek "eleven"; references how "its generator is so close to 11/8 as to be called nothing but that" and that it has 11 large steps. Prefix is hen-.
14-note mosses
Pattern	Suggested name(s)	Proposed by	Reasoning
7L 7s	heptawood		Extension of -wood scales.
10L 4s	hemidiatonic	Vector Graphics	Analogy with the hemipythagorean system.
11L 3s	ketradekic	Vector Graphics	In reference to the Ketradektriatoh scale.
13L 1s	trollic	Godtone	The name proposed by Godtone refers to 12L 1s, but it refers to 13L 1s as a troll move. Prefix is tro-.
15-note mosses
Pattern	Suggested name(s)	Proposed by	Reasoning
7L 8s	roklotic	Lériendil	In reference to the Roklotian scale used in Famanan music theory.

Other names for mosses with 16 or more notes

Other higher note count mosses
Note count	Pattern	Suggested name(s)	Proposed by	Reasoning
17	2L 15s	liesic	Frostburn	Frostburn's naming scheme only goes up to 3 generations, so this name is suggested. Prefix is lisa-.
19	3L 16s	magicaltonic	Xenllium	In reference to magic temperament.
	16L 3s	muggletonic	Xenllium	In reference to muggles temperament.
20	3L 17s	apritonic	Frostburn	A meme referencing Apricot XEN computers.
21	10L 11s	miracloid	Eliora	In reference to miracle temperament.
22	3L 19s	zheligowskic	Frostburn	In reference to Lucjan Żeligowski leading fights against the town of Giedraičiai. Proposed prefix is "zheli-".
	19L 3s	giedraitic	Frostburn	Named after the basic magic layout of Kite Giedraitis' guitar. Proposed prefix is "kai-".
	21L 1s	escapist	Eliora	References escapade temperament, which is supported by both 21edo and 22edo, covering the entire range.
23	22L 1s	quartismoid	Eliora	Five generators of roughly 33/32 quartertone are equal to 7/6 in the harmonic entropy minimum; also, the extreme ranges of 22edo and 23edo both support this mos.

Table of MOS scales up to 24 notes

The table below lists all MOS scales and their stems needed to generate everything with assignable names in the system.

TAMNAMS mos names extended

11-note mosses
Pattern	Name	Prefix
1L 10s	tanzanite (p-chro antisinatonic)	tan
2L 9s	antivillatonic (p-chro balzano)	anvil
3L 8s	isodiaphoric (p-chro checkertonic)	none
4L 7s	kleistonic (p-chro smitonic)	klei
5L 6s	mothroid (p-chro machinoid)	none
6L 5s	amsochromic (m-chro machinoid)	none
7L 4s	daemotonic (m-chro smitonic)	susmi
8L 3s	flanatonic (m-chro checkertonic)	none
9L 2s	villatonic (m-chro balzano)	vil
10L 1s	antitanzanite (m-chro antisinatonic)	antan
12-note mosses
Pattern	Name	Prefix
1L 11s	helenite (s-enhar antisinatonic)	hel
2L 10s	thalassic (p-chro jaric)	none
3L 9s	p-chro tcherepnin	none
4L 8s	p-chro tetrawood	none
5L 7s	p-chromatic	pychro
6L 6s	hexawood	hexwd
7L 5s	m-chromatic	mellow
8L 4s	m-chro tetrawood	none
9L 3s	m-chro tcherepnin	none
10L 2s	telluric (m-chro jaric)	none
11L 1s	antihelenite (p-enhar antisinatonic)	anhel
13-note mosses
Pattern	Name	Prefix
1L 12s	zircon (uha-antisinatonic)	zir
2L 11s	antihendecoid (s-enhar balzano)	anhen
3L 10s	antiluachoid (p-chro sephiroid)	none
4L 9s	paragonic (p-chro gramitonic)	none
5L 8s	antiaureate (p-chro oneirotonic)	none
6L 7s	p-chro archeotonic	none
7L 6s	m-chro archeotonic	none
8L 5s	aureate (m-chro oneirotonic)	none
9L 4s	antiparagonic (m-chro gramitonic)	none
10L 3s	luachoid (m-chro sephiroid)	none
11L 2s	hendecoid (p-enhar balzano)	hen
12L 1s	antizircon (paha-antisinatonic)	anzir
14-note mosses
Pattern	Name	Prefix
1L 13s	antrollic	antro
2L 12s	s-enhar jaric	none
3L 11s	antiketradekic (s-enhar checkertonic)	none
4L 10s	antihemidiatonic (p-chro lime)	none
5L 9s	p-chro semiquartal	none
6L 8s	p-chro ekic	none
7L 7s	heptawood	heptwd
8L 6s	m-chro ekic	none
9L 5s	m-chro semiquartal	none
10L 4s	hemidiatonic (m-chro lime)	none
11L 3s	ketradekic (p-enhar checkertonic)	none
12L 2s	p-enhar jaric	none
13L 1s	trollic	tro
15-note mosses
Pattern	Name	Prefix
1L 14s	p-chro antrollic	none
2L 13s	uha-balzano	none
3L 12s	s-enhar tcherepnin	none
4L 11s	s-enhar smitonic	none
5L 10s	p-chro pentawood	none
6L 9s	p-chro hyrulic	none
7L 8s	roklotic (p-chro pine)	none
8L 7s	antiroklotic (m-chro pine)	none
9L 6s	m-chro hyrulic	none
10L 5s	m-chro pentawood	none
11L 4s	p-enhar smitonic	none
12L 3s	p-enhar tcherepnin	none
13L 2s	paha-balzano	none
14L 1s	m-chro antrollic	none
16-note mosses
Pattern	Name	Prefix
1L 15s	s-enhar antrollic	none
2L 14s	uha-jaric	none
3L 13s	s-enhar sephiroid	none
4L 12s	s-enhar tetrawood	none
5L 11s	s-enhar machinoid	none
6L 10s	p-chro lemon	none
7L 9s	p-chro superdiatonic	none
8L 8s	octawood	octwd
9L 7s	m-chro superdiatonic	none
10L 6s	m-chro lemon	none
11L 5s	p-enhar machinoid	none
12L 4s	p-enhar tetrawood	none
13L 3s	p-enhar sephiroid	none
14L 2s	paha-jaric	none
15L 1s	p-enhar antrollic	none
17-note mosses
Pattern	Name	Prefix
1L 16s	uha-antrollic	none
2L 15s	liesic	lisa
3L 14s	uha-checkertonic	none
4L 13s	s-enhar gramitonic	none
5L 12s	s-enharmonic	supen
6L 11s	f-enhar machinoid	none
7L 10s	p-chro dicoid	none
8L 9s	p-chro subneutralic	none
9L 8s	m-chro subneutralic	none
10L 7s	m-chro dicoid	none
11L 6s	m-enhar machinoid	none
12L 5s	p-enharmonic	pyen
13L 4s	p-enhar gramitonic	none
14L 3s	paha-checkertonic	none
15L 2s	antiliesic	alisa
16L 1s	paha-antrollic	none
18-note mosses
Pattern	Name	Prefix
3L 15s	uha-tcherepnin	none
4L 14s	s-enhar lime	none
5L 13s	s-enhar oneirotonic	none
6L 12s	p-chro hexawood	none
7L 11s	f-enhar smitonic	none
8L 10s	p-chro taric	none
9L 9s	enneawood	ennwd
10L 8s	m-chro taric	none
11L 7s	m-enhar smitonic	none
12L 6s	m-chro hexawood	none
13L 5s	p-enhar oneirotonic	none
14L 4s	p-enhar lime	none
15L 3s	paha-tcherepnin	none
19-note mosses
Pattern	Name	Prefix
2L 17s	p-chro liesic	none
3L 16s	magicaltonic (uha-sephiroid)	none
4L 15s	uha-smitonic	none
5L 14s	s-enhar semiquartal	none
6L 13s	s-enhar archeotonic	none
7L 12s	f-enharmonic	flaen
8L 11s	f-enhar checkertonic	none
9L 10s	p-chro sinatonic	none
10L 9s	m-chro sinatonic	none
11L 8s	m-enhar checkertonic	none
12L 7s	m-enharmonic	meen
13L 6s	p-enhar archeotonic	none
14L 5s	p-enhar semiquartal	none
15L 4s	paha-smitonic	none
16L 3s	muggletonic (paha-sephiroid)	none
17L 2s	m-chro liesic	none
20-note mosses
Pattern	Name	Prefix
3L 17s	apritonic	none
4L 16s	uha-tetrawood	none
5L 15s	s-enhar pentawood	none
6L 14s	s-enhar ekic	none
7L 13s	f-enhar archeotonic	none
8L 12s	f-enhar tetrawood	none
9L 11s	f-enhar balzano	none
10L 10s	decawood	decwd
11L 9s	m-enhar balzano	none
12L 8s	m-enhar tetrawood	none
13L 7s	m-enhar archeotonic	none
14L 6s	p-enhar ekic	none
15L 5s	p-enhar pentawood	none
16L 4s	paha-tetrawood	none
17L 3s	antiapritonic	none
21-note mosses
Pattern	Name	Prefix
2L 19s	s-enhar liesic	none
4L 17s	uha-gramitonic	none
5L 16s	uha-machinoid	none
6L 15s	s-enhar hyrulic	none
7L 14s	p-chro septawood	none
8L 13s	f-enhar oneirotonic	none
9L 12s	f-enhar tcherepnin	none
10L 11s	miracloid (f-enhar antisinatonic)	none
11L 10s	antimiracloid (m-enhar antisinatonic)	none
12L 9s	m-enhar tcherepnin	none
13L 8s	m-enhar oneirotonic	none
14L 7s	m-chro septawood	none
15L 6s	p-enhar hyrulic	none
16L 5s	paha-machinoid	none
17L 4s	paha-gramitonic	none
19L 2s	p-enhar liesic	none
22-note mosses
Pattern	Name	Prefix
1L 21s	antiescapist	none
3L 19s	zheligowskic	zheli
4L 18s	uha-lime	none
5L 17s	reinhardic	none
6L 16s	s-enhar lemon	none
7L 15s	s-enhar pine	none
8L 14s	f-enhar ekic	none
9L 13s	f-enhar gramitonic	none
10L 12s	f-enhar jaric	none
11L 11s	hendecawood	hedwd
12L 10s	m-enhar jaric	none
13L 9s	m-enhar gramitonic	none
14L 8s	m-enhar ekic	none
15L 7s	p-enhar pine	none
16L 6s	p-enhar lemon	none
17L 5s	protofractalic	none
18L 4s	paha-lime	none
19L 3s	giedraitic	kai
21L 1s	escapist	none
23-note mosses
Pattern	Name	Prefix
1L 22s	antiquartismoid	none
2L 21s	uha-liesic	none
5L 18s	uha-oneirotonic	none
6L 17s	uso-machinoid	none
7L 16s	s-enhar superdiatonic	none
8L 15s	f-enhar pine	none
9L 14s	f-enhar semiquartal	none
10L 13s	f-enhar sephiroid	none
11L 12s	miha-antisinatonic	none
12L 11s	quha-antisinatonic	none
13L 10s	m-enhar sephiroid	none
14L 9s	m-enhar semiquartal	none
15L 8s	m-enhar pine	none
16L 7s	p-enhar superdiatonic	none
17L 6s	paso-machinoid	none
18L 5s	paha-oneirotonic	none
21L 2s	paha-liesic	none
22L 1s	quartismoid	none
24-note mosses
Pattern	Name	Prefix
5L 19s	uha-semiquartal	none
6L 18s	s-enhar hexawood	none
7L 17s	s-enhar dicoid	none
8L 16s	p-chro octawood	none
9L 15s	f-enhar hyrulic	none
10L 14s	f-enhar lime	none
11L 13s	miha-balzano	none
12L 12s	dodecawood	dodwd
13L 11s	quha-balzano	none
14L 10s	m-enhar lime	none
15L 9s	m-enhar hyrulic	none
16L 8s	m-chro octawood	none
17L 7s	p-enhar dicoid	none
18L 6s	p-enhar hexawood	none
19L 5s	paha-semiquartal	none