Meantone family
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The 5-limit parent [[comma]] of the meantone family is the Didymas or [[syntonic comma]], 81/80. This is the one they all temper out. The [[Monzos and Interval Space|monzo]] for 81/80 goes |-4 4 -1>, and that can be flipped around to the corresponding [[Wedgies and Multivals|wedgie]], <<1 4 4||, which tells us that the period is an octave, the generator is a fifth, and four fifths go to make up a 5/1 interval. ==Seven limit children== The 7-limit children of 81/80 are septimal meantone, with normal comma list [|-4 4 -1>, |-13 10 0 -1>], flattone, with normal list [|-4 4 -1>, |-17 9 0 1>], dominant, with normal list [|-4 4 -1>, |6 -2 0 -1>], sharptone, with normal list [|-4 4 -1>, |2 -3 0 1>], injera, with normal list [|-4 4 -1>, |-7 8 0 -2>], mohajira, with normal list [|-4 4 -1>, |-23 11 0 2>], godzilla, with normal list [|-4 4 -1>, |-4 -1 0 2>], mothra, with normal list [|-4 4 -1>, |-10 1 0 3>], squares, with normal list [|-4 4 -1>, |-3 9 0 -4>], and liese, with normal list [|-4 4 -1>, |-9 11 0 -3>]. ===Septimal meantone=== The comma |-13 10 0 -1> for septimal meantone tells us that the interval class for 7 is 10 generator steps up. Hence, the 7/4 of septimal meantone is the augmented sixth, C-A#, and other septimal intervals are 7/6, C-D#, the augmented second, and 7/5, C-F#, the tritone. The [[Wedgies and Multivals|wedgie]] for septimal meantone is <<1 4 10 4 13 12||, again telling us how to get to 5 and 7 in terms of generator steps. The temperament, aside from what is on the normal list, tempers out 126/125 and 225/224, and [[31edo]] is a good tuning for it. ===Flattone=== Similarly for flattone, the wedgie is <<1 4 -9 4 -17 -32||, which tells us among other things that 9 generator steps of 4/3 get to the interval class for 7, meaning that 7/4 is a diminished minor seventh interval. Other intervals are 7/6, a diminished minor third, and 7/5, a doubly diminshed fifth. Good tunings for flattone are [[26edo]], [[45edo]] and [[64edo]]. ===Dominant=== The wedgie for dominant is <<1 4 -2 4 -6 -16||. Now the interval class for 7 is obtained from two fourths in succession, so that 7/4 is a minor seventh. The 7/6 interval is, like 6/5, now a minor third, and 7/5 is a diminished fifth. An excellent tuning for dominant is [[12edo]], but it also works well with Pythagorean tuning of pure 3/2 fifths, and with [[29edo]], [[41edo]], or [[53edo]]. ===Sharptone=== Sharptone, with a wedgie <<1 4 3 4 2 -4||, is a low-accuracy temperament tempering out 21/20 and 28/27. In sharptone, a 7/4 is a major sixth, a 7/6 a whole tone, and a 7/5 a fourth. Genuinely septimal sounding harmony therefore cannot be expected, but it can be used to translate, more or less, 7-limit JI into 5-limit meantone. [[12edo]] tuning does sharptone about as well as such a thing can be done. ===Injera=== The wedgie for injera is <<2 8 8 8 7 -4||, which tells us it has a half-octave period and a generator which can be taken as a fifth or fourth, but also as a 15/14 semitone difference between a half-octave and a perfect fifth. Injera tempers out 50/49, equating 7/5 with 10/7 and giving a tritone of half an octave. A major third up from this tritone is the 7/4. [[38edo]], which is two parallel 19edos, is an excellent tuning for injera. ===Godzilla=== Godzilla has wedgie <<2 8 1 8 -4 -20||, and tempers out 49/48, equating 8/7 with 7/6. Two of the step-and-a-half intervals these represent give a fourth, and so step-and-a-half generators generate godzilla. [[19edo]] is the perfect godzilla tuning, so much so that's there's not much point in looking elsewhere. Hence it can be more or less equated with taking 4/19 as a generator. Godzilla is not well supplied with good [[MOSScales|MOS scales]], though it has a pentatonic scale which could serve as an alternative to [[5edo]], but other options exist for those wanting to explore it. ===Mohajira=== Mohajira, with wedgie <<2 8 -11 8 -23 -48||, really makes more sense as an 11-limit temperament. It has a generator of a neutral third, two of which make up a fifth, and which can be taken to represent 128/105. Mohajira tempers out 6144/6125, the porwell comma. [[31edo]] makes for an excellent (7-limit) mohajira tuning, with generator 9/31. It has a 7-note MOS with three larger steps and four smaller ones, going sLsLsLs. ===Mothra=== Mothra, with wedgie <<3 12 -1 12 -10 -36||, splits the fifth into three 8/7 generators. It uses 1029/1024, the gamelisma, to accomplish this deed and also tempers out 1728/1715, the orwell comma. Using [[31edo]] with a generator of 6/31 is an excellent tuning choice. Once again something other than a MOS should be used as a scale to get the most out of mothra. ===Squares=== Squares, with wedgie <<4 16 9 16 3 -24||, splits the interval of an eleventh, or 8/3, into four supermajor third (9/7) intervals, and uses it for a generator. [[31edo]], with a generator of 11/31, makes for a good squares tuning, with 8, 11, and 14 note MOS available. Squares tempers out 2401/2400, the breedsma, as well as 2430/2401. ===Liese=== Liese, with wedgie <<3 12 11 12 9 -8||, splits the twelfth interval of 3/1 into three generators of 10/7, using the comma 1029/1000. It also tempers out 686/675, the senga. [[74edo]] makes for a good liese tuning, though [[19edo]] can be used. The tuning is well-supplied with MOS: 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 36, 55.
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<html><head><title>Meantone family</title></head><body>The 5-limit parent <a class="wiki_link" href="/comma">comma</a> of the meantone family is the Didymas or <a class="wiki_link" href="/syntonic%20comma">syntonic comma</a>, 81/80. This is the one they all temper out. The <a class="wiki_link" href="/Monzos%20and%20Interval%20Space">monzo</a> for 81/80 goes |-4 4 -1>, and that can be flipped around to the corresponding <a class="wiki_link" href="/Wedgies%20and%20Multivals">wedgie</a>, <<1 4 4||, which tells us that the period is an octave, the generator is a fifth, and four fifths go to make up a 5/1 interval.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:0:<h2> --><h2 id="toc0"><a name="x-Seven limit children"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:0 -->Seven limit children</h2> The 7-limit children of 81/80 are septimal meantone, with normal comma list [|-4 4 -1>, |-13 10 0 -1>], flattone, with normal list [|-4 4 -1>, |-17 9 0 1>], dominant, with normal list [|-4 4 -1>, |6 -2 0 -1>], sharptone, with normal list [|-4 4 -1>, |2 -3 0 1>], injera, with normal list [|-4 4 -1>, |-7 8 0 -2>], mohajira, with normal list [|-4 4 -1>, |-23 11 0 2>], godzilla, with normal list [|-4 4 -1>, |-4 -1 0 2>], mothra, with normal list [|-4 4 -1>, |-10 1 0 3>], squares, with normal list [|-4 4 -1>, |-3 9 0 -4>], and liese, with normal list [|-4 4 -1>, |-9 11 0 -3>].<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:2:<h3> --><h3 id="toc1"><a name="x-Seven limit children-Septimal meantone"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:2 -->Septimal meantone</h3> The comma |-13 10 0 -1> for septimal meantone tells us that the interval class for 7 is 10 generator steps up. Hence, the 7/4 of septimal meantone is the augmented sixth, C-A#, and other septimal intervals are 7/6, C-D#, the augmented second, and 7/5, C-F#, the tritone. The <a class="wiki_link" href="/Wedgies%20and%20Multivals">wedgie</a> for septimal meantone is <<1 4 10 4 13 12||, again telling us how to get to 5 and 7 in terms of generator steps. The temperament, aside from what is on the normal list, tempers out 126/125 and 225/224, and <a class="wiki_link" href="/31edo">31edo</a> is a good tuning for it.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:4:<h3> --><h3 id="toc2"><a name="x-Seven limit children-Flattone"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:4 -->Flattone</h3> Similarly for flattone, the wedgie is <<1 4 -9 4 -17 -32||, which tells us among other things that 9 generator steps of 4/3 get to the interval class for 7, meaning that 7/4 is a diminished minor seventh interval. Other intervals are 7/6, a diminished minor third, and 7/5, a doubly diminshed fifth. Good tunings for flattone are <a class="wiki_link" href="/26edo">26edo</a>, <a class="wiki_link" href="/45edo">45edo</a> and <a class="wiki_link" href="/64edo">64edo</a>.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:6:<h3> --><h3 id="toc3"><a name="x-Seven limit children-Dominant"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:6 -->Dominant</h3> The wedgie for dominant is <<1 4 -2 4 -6 -16||. Now the interval class for 7 is obtained from two fourths in succession, so that 7/4 is a minor seventh. The 7/6 interval is, like 6/5, now a minor third, and 7/5 is a diminished fifth. An excellent tuning for dominant is <a class="wiki_link" href="/12edo">12edo</a>, but it also works well with Pythagorean tuning of pure 3/2 fifths, and with <a class="wiki_link" href="/29edo">29edo</a>, <a class="wiki_link" href="/41edo">41edo</a>, or <a class="wiki_link" href="/53edo">53edo</a>.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:8:<h3> --><h3 id="toc4"><a name="x-Seven limit children-Sharptone"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:8 -->Sharptone</h3> Sharptone, with a wedgie <<1 4 3 4 2 -4||, is a low-accuracy temperament tempering out 21/20 and 28/27. In sharptone, a 7/4 is a major sixth, a 7/6 a whole tone, and a 7/5 a fourth. Genuinely septimal sounding harmony therefore cannot be expected, but it can be used to translate, more or less, 7-limit JI into 5-limit meantone. <a class="wiki_link" href="/12edo">12edo</a> tuning does sharptone about as well as such a thing can be done.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:10:<h3> --><h3 id="toc5"><a name="x-Seven limit children-Injera"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:10 -->Injera</h3> The wedgie for injera is <<2 8 8 8 7 -4||, which tells us it has a half-octave period and a generator which can be taken as a fifth or fourth, but also as a 15/14 semitone difference between a half-octave and a perfect fifth. Injera tempers out 50/49, equating 7/5 with 10/7 and giving a tritone of half an octave. A major third up from this tritone is the 7/4. <a class="wiki_link" href="/38edo">38edo</a>, which is two parallel 19edos, is an excellent tuning for injera.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:12:<h3> --><h3 id="toc6"><a name="x-Seven limit children-Godzilla"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:12 -->Godzilla</h3> Godzilla has wedgie <<2 8 1 8 -4 -20||, and tempers out 49/48, equating 8/7 with 7/6. Two of the step-and-a-half intervals these represent give a fourth, and so step-and-a-half generators generate godzilla. <a class="wiki_link" href="/19edo">19edo</a> is the perfect godzilla tuning, so much so that's there's not much point in looking elsewhere. Hence it can be more or less equated with taking 4/19 as a generator. Godzilla is not well supplied with good <a class="wiki_link" href="/MOSScales">MOS scales</a>, though it has a pentatonic scale which could serve as an alternative to <a class="wiki_link" href="/5edo">5edo</a>, but other options exist for those wanting to explore it.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:14:<h3> --><h3 id="toc7"><a name="x-Seven limit children-Mohajira"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:14 -->Mohajira</h3> Mohajira, with wedgie <<2 8 -11 8 -23 -48||, really makes more sense as an 11-limit temperament. It has a generator of a neutral third, two of which make up a fifth, and which can be taken to represent 128/105. Mohajira tempers out 6144/6125, the porwell comma. <a class="wiki_link" href="/31edo">31edo</a> makes for an excellent (7-limit) mohajira tuning, with generator 9/31. It has a 7-note MOS with three larger steps and four smaller ones, going sLsLsLs.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:16:<h3> --><h3 id="toc8"><a name="x-Seven limit children-Mothra"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:16 -->Mothra</h3> Mothra, with wedgie <<3 12 -1 12 -10 -36||, splits the fifth into three 8/7 generators. It uses 1029/1024, the gamelisma, to accomplish this deed and also tempers out 1728/1715, the orwell comma. Using <a class="wiki_link" href="/31edo">31edo</a> with a generator of 6/31 is an excellent tuning choice. Once again something other than a MOS should be used as a scale to get the most out of mothra.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:18:<h3> --><h3 id="toc9"><a name="x-Seven limit children-Squares"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:18 -->Squares</h3> Squares, with wedgie <<4 16 9 16 3 -24||, splits the interval of an eleventh, or 8/3, into four supermajor third (9/7) intervals, and uses it for a generator. <a class="wiki_link" href="/31edo">31edo</a>, with a generator of 11/31, makes for a good squares tuning, with 8, 11, and 14 note MOS available. Squares tempers out 2401/2400, the breedsma, as well as 2430/2401.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:20:<h3> --><h3 id="toc10"><a name="x-Seven limit children-Liese"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:20 -->Liese</h3> Liese, with wedgie <<3 12 11 12 9 -8||, splits the twelfth interval of 3/1 into three generators of 10/7, using the comma 1029/1000. It also tempers out 686/675, the senga. <a class="wiki_link" href="/74edo">74edo</a> makes for a good liese tuning, though <a class="wiki_link" href="/19edo">19edo</a> can be used. The tuning is well-supplied with MOS: 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 36, 55.</body></html>