Archytas and ares

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"Archytas" redirects here. For the ancient Greek Pythagorean, see Wikipedia: Archytas.

Archytas is the rank-3 temperament tempering out 64/63, with the same 2.3.7-subgroup structure as archy but giving prime 5 an independent generator. It has an obvious extension to the 11-limit tempering out 100/99 and 176/175, called ares, as 64/63 = (100/99)(176/175).

For technical data, see Archytas family #Ares. See also: Ptolemismic clan #Ares.

Etymology

This temperament is named after the Greek god Ares, most likely related to the fact that Archytas was Greek.

Todo: add etymology

Add name (person who coined the term) and year (when it was coined). Review reasoning if possible.

Interval lattice

Chords

Archytas enables the eponymous essentially tempered chords of archytas chords. Ares further enables ptolemismic and valinorsmic chords.

Scales