User:AthiTrydhen/Schönbaumia

Various incidents and music theory ideas from a hypothetical parallel universe, Schönbaumia, which is very similar to our world but with a key point of divergence

Emil Schönbaum

This parallel world is named after Emil Schönbaum, a fictional violinist who started learning from Leopold Mozart, but the latter was on vacation when Schönbaum was learning the harmonic minor scale, so Schönbaum spontaneously "fixed" the augmented second, an interval quality which he hadn't previously learned, by shrinking it and widening the major seconds in the scale such that they ended up the same width. This made an LsLLsLs scale ("Schönbaum Minor") which Leopold Mozart was very much impressed by, and he along with fictional mathematician (name) developed 11edo as a formalization and completion of this scale. The idea behind this is that Leopold Mozart's method already involved 55edo, in which a semitone was 1\11.