Temperament naming
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Temperament Name Etymologies:
===Amity:===
Origin: Pre-Middle-Path
Meaning: A restructuring of the words "acute minor third." The ideal generator for Amity is between a minor third and neutral third.
===Ammonite:===
Origin: 2011, Keenan Pepper
Meaning: Keenan Pepper suggested it was a good name of a weird spiral-shaped animal, for a temperament in the porcupine family (like nautilus)
===Annapolis:===
Named so because its relative dominant represents a sharp 8/5
===A-Team:===
A-Team is a pun on "eighteen," since the 2.9.21 subgroup of A-Team is nearly optimal in 18-EDO.
===Augene:===
Originally tripletone, in analogy with twintone, but when twintone was renamed pajara Paul Erlich suggested it should be augene, after augmented and Gene Smith.
===Avila:===
Origin: 2011, Mike Battaglia, Ron Sword, Ryan Avella
Meaning: Originally discovered by Ryan by accident while he was reading the mapping for Mavila temperament incorrectly. It is the original spelling of Ryan's surname.
===Beatles:===
Named for the 19\64 generator, since 1964 is the year the Beatlemania swept the world.
===Blackwood:===
Origin: Middle-Path or Pre-Middle-Path
Meaning: Named after Easley Blackwood's 10-out-of-15 maximally even scale.
===Breed:===
The rank three 2401/2400 temperament, named after [[Graham Breed]].
===Catakleismic:===
The "cata" prefix means "down", and the catakleismic generator is very slightly down from the hanson generator, a temperament called "kleismic" until Paul Erlich decided the name must and shall be changed.
===Calenda:===
Meaning: It is the Latin name of the first day of a month. This represents the 15/7 period, which is a candidate for the least complex minor ninth.
===Catler:===
Named for [[Jon Catler]].
===**Contrapyth:**===
Meaning: Its period makes its categories run competely against i.e. "contra" any Pythagorean notion of concordance and discordance, hence "contrapyth"
===Corcovado:===
Meaning: It is the Portuguese word for "hunchback." This represents the period's relative fifith harmonic, which reduces to a diminished fourth (up to 458 cents) instead of a perfect one (458-538 cents).
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===Dicot:===
Meaning: 3/2 is divided into 2 equal parts, hence "di-". Not sure why "-cot". "-Cot" has been suggested to originate from 'cotyledon,' the name for the embryo of a plant seed.
Avella: well apparently someone decided that "cot" should refer to the fifth
Avella: it is arbitrary
===Dominant:===
Meaning: It's meantone which calls the dominant seventh chord a 4:5:6:7. It is one of the least complex 7-limit extensions of meantone.
===Doublewide:===
Named after a type of mobile home.
===Ennealimmal:===
Origin: Gene Smith
Meaning: Ennealimmal has a 1/9-octave period, hence "ennea-"; the period is very close to the large limma, [[27_25|27/25]], hence "limmal".
===Ervsec:===
A name derived from a scale discovered by Erv Wilson and George Secor in the 80's while George was visiting Erv.
===Esmeralda:===
This is name of the gypsy girl in the novel Notre Dame de Paris who turns out to be a French citizen's daughter at just the moment she is about be hung, hence the generator of Janeiro's relative neutral-small major third.
===Father:===
Origin: 2000s?
Meaning: A combination of the words "fourth" and "third." This is meant to represent the unification of perfect fourths and major thirds in Father temperament.
===Flattone:===
Origin: Gene Smith
Meaning: A variant of meantone in which the whole tone is flatter than in septimal meantone.
===Glacial:===
Origin: 2012, Igliashon Jones, Mike Battaglia
Meaning: Glacial sounds like "Igliashon."
===Godzilla:===
Named by Gene Smith after a Japanese fictional monster; part of the daikaiju series of names for temperaments with an approximate 8/7 as generator.
===Gravity:===
Named after its 40/27 "grave fifth" generator.
===Hanson:===
Larry Hanson's 34-edo guitar (9\34 generator)
===Harry:===
Derived from a theory that you might be able to play the music of Harry Partch in it without driving him nuts so long as you didn't say that was what you were doing.
===Hedgehog:===
So named because it is in the PORCUPINE family, but different.
===Heinz:===
Named after the fact that 26\57 is a possible generator (which represents 11/8).
===Helmholtz:===
So named because Hermann von Helmholtz proposed 1/8-schisma flattened fifths.
===Hugo:===
Victor Hugo wrote the novel Notre Dame de Paris, hence being the Janeiro temperament generated by 19/84 period.
===**Italic:**===
Origin: 2012
Named from the race of the Neapolitan people (the namesake of the 8:6:5 triad in common pratctice tonality and the most consonant 6-3 triad)
===Injera:===
Origin: Paul Erlich
Meaning: Named after an Ethiopian flatbread because 26edo represents it well, and the Ethiopian alphabet has 26 consonants.
===Jamesbond:===
Named from the fact that the wedgie is <<0 0 7 ...||
===Jamestown:===
Named from the possible period of 1607 cents (Jamestown, VA was established in 1607).
===Janeiro:===
Meaning: It is the Portuguese word for the month of January. This represents the leading "1" of the (diatonic) semitone which is generally the octave reduction of the temperament's period.
===Keemun:===
Keemun (simplified Chinese: 祁门红茶; traditional Chinese: 祁門紅茶; pinyin: qímén hóngchá; literally "Qimen red tea") is a black Chinese tea with a winey and fruity taste, designated as a China Famous Tea. Since it sounds sort of like kleismic, it was given this name in Paul Erlich's Middle Path paper, thereby ending the unfortunate practice of calling this temperament, a 7-limit extension of hanson with a much lower accuracy, by the name "kleismic" also.
===Kilometric:===
So named because the comma called the "meter" is exactly the 1000th root of its period.
===Lampante:===
Named for the lowest grade of olive oil because the 30/13 period is equally weak as either a ninth or a tenth.
===Mabila:===
Origin: 2011, Gene Smith, Ryan Avella
Meaning: Named after Mavila temperament due to their similar tunings and scale structure.
===Machine:===
Mike Battaglia named it because it sounded like a 4:7:9:11 machine.
===**Magic**:===
Origin: Graham Breed
The "mag-" prefix stands for "major third."
===Marchettus:===
Named in honor of Marchettus of Padua, who suggests a cadential major tenth the size of its period in his 13th-century work on tuning theory.
===Marvel:===
Rather bizarrely, the 11-limit extension of the king of 7-limit planar temperaments [[http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/50829|was named first]].
===Mavila:===
Origin: 1990s? Kraig Grady
Meaning: Named after the Chopi village of Mavila in Mozambique, known for their use near-equal heptatonic scales. Nobody can agree on how to pronounce this word.
===Meantone:===
Origin: Really really old
Meaning: Named so because it maps the major whole tone (9/8) and the minor whole tone (10/9) to the same interval, which is near the average of the two tones in ideal tunings.
===**Middletown:**===
Origin: "2012"
Meaning: Named so because its period dilates the mean (middle) tone temperament map into tempering out 64/63.
===Migration:===
Origin: ?
Meaning: A temperament closely related to mohajira, which means "migrating".
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===Miracle:===
Origin: Paul Erlich, May 2001
Double meaning: It is a miracle that this scale is so accurate! And it is an acronym "Multiple Integer Ratios Approximated Consistently, Linearly and Evenly."
===Mohajira:===
Origin: Jacques Dudon
Meaning: from Arabic مهاجرة //muhājirah// which roughly means "migrating".
===Monocacy:===
Named after the Monocacy River in Frederick County, MD. Monocacy is also a play the medium minor tenth period of the temperament.
===Mothra:===
Named by Gene Smith after a Japanese fictional monster: a daikaiju name for a temperament with ~8/7 generator. Mothra has defeated Godzilla more times than any other daikaiju; the musical meaning of this fact is at best speculative.
===Myna:===
Myna is related to starling, the 126/125 planar temperament, and a myna is a member of the starling family (Sturnidae.) Myna is also a play on minor third, the generator.
===Napoli:===
Means "Naples" in Italian, given by the fact the its relative subminor triad is the Neapolitan sixth triad.
===Negri ("negripent", "negrisept"):===
Origin: 2001, (Paul Erlich?)
Meaning: Named after John Negri's 10-out-of-19 maximally even scale.
===Notre Dame:===
Meaning: The cathedral Notre Dame de Paris is featured in a novel beginning in the month of January (the novel also contains a hunchback), and was also home to the first school of polyphony in European history; therefore the 32/15 period.
===Octacot:===
Meaning: 3/2 is divided into 8 equal parts, therefore "octa-".
===Orgone:===
Origin: 2010, Andrew Heathwaite
Meaning: An analogy between Wilhelm Reich's proposal for an invisible, ephemeral creative energy and the subtleties of the higher harmonics 7 and 11. Superkleismic can be viewed as orgone extended to the full 11-limit.
===Oriole:===
Because the Middletown temperament is named after Middletown, MD, Maryland's state bird gets to be the namesake of the temperament with a 12/5 period. (N. B. In spite of the name, the MOS for it is not limited to linear combinations of 3L 4s and 9L 4s)
===Orwell:===
Origin: 2001, Gene Smith
Meaning: Named after George Orwell's book 1984, because of the generator of 19\84.
===Pajara:===
Origin: Originally (up to 2001) paultone and then twintone, in analogy with meantone, but Paul Erlich didn't like this and suggested pajara, after "Paul, John, and Ara," the three people jamming at his house at some random point in time.
===Potomac:===
Named after the Potomac River, into which the Monocacy and the Shenandoah empty; hence its period of a neutral tenth.
===Porcupine:===
Origin: 1999? Herman Miller
Meaning: Named after Herman Miller's Mizarian Porcupine Overture in 15-EDO.
===Quadritikleismic:===
Quadritikleismic has a kleismic generator, so that (6/5)^6 = 3, and four periods per octave, therefore quadri-.
===Rodan:===
Named by Gene Smith after a Japanese fictional monster. A daikaiju name, from the 8/7 generator.
===Rosada:===
The red of roses and of green of emeralds are complementary colors, hence the complementary structure to the Esmeralda scale.
===Semaphore:===
Meaning: semi-fourth, i.e. half of a 4/3.
===Semisept:===
Meaning: semi-(septimal major sixth), i.e. half of a 12/7.
===Sensi: (also 'Sensipent,' 'Sensisept')===
Originally semisixths, but after it was decided that "bi" or "semi" should be half for periods and "hemi" should be half for generators, that was contracted to sensi.
===Shenandoah:===
Named after the Shenandoah River in Virginia. The initial "sh" is palatal like the "j" in "major"; as in the period of the medium major tenth.
===Slendric:===
Named after slendro which it resembles very little.
===Squares:===
Named from the fact that the wedgie is <<4 16 9 ...||, which is 2^2, 4^2, 3^2.
===Starling:===
The 126/125 planar temperament, named after Herman Miller's Starling scale.
===Srutal:===
A name proposed by Paul Erlich because the 22-tone MOS looks a lot like the Indian Shruti scale.
===Superkleismic:===
The 6/5 generator is ~322 cents, sharper than the kleismic 6/5, hence "super-". For all practical purposes the same thing as orgone.
===Superpyth:===
Meaning: fifths are wider than Pythagorean, hence super-Pythagorean or "superpyth"
===Tetracot:===
Meaning: 3/2 is divided into 4 equal parts, hence "tetra-". Not sure why "-cot" (see Dicot above).
===Triforce:===
Triforce has 3 periods per octave, hence tri-.
===Tritikleismic:===
Tritikleismic has a kleismic generator, so that (6/5)^6 = 3, and 3 periods per octave (therefore tri-.)
===Valentine:===
Named for Robert C Valentine.
===Victoria:===
Victoria is the feminine form of "Victor," hence being the inverse of Hugo.
===Whitewood:===
Meaning: Black keys are to Blackwood as white keys are to Whitewood.Original HTML content:
<html><head><title>Temperament Names</title></head><body>Temperament Name Etymologies:<br /> <br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:0:<h3> --><h3 id="toc0"><a name="x--Amity:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:0 -->Amity:</h3> Origin: Pre-Middle-Path<br /> Meaning: A restructuring of the words "acute minor third." The ideal generator for Amity is between a minor third and neutral third.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:2:<h3> --><h3 id="toc1"><a name="x--Ammonite:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:2 -->Ammonite:</h3> Origin: 2011, Keenan Pepper<br /> Meaning: Keenan Pepper suggested it was a good name of a weird spiral-shaped animal, for a temperament in the porcupine family (like nautilus)<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:4:<h3> --><h3 id="toc2"><a name="x--Annapolis:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:4 -->Annapolis:</h3> Named so because its relative dominant represents a sharp 8/5<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:6:<h3> --><h3 id="toc3"><a name="x--A-Team:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:6 -->A-Team:</h3> A-Team is a pun on "eighteen," since the 2.9.21 subgroup of A-Team is nearly optimal in 18-EDO.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:8:<h3> --><h3 id="toc4"><a name="x--Augene:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:8 -->Augene:</h3> Originally tripletone, in analogy with twintone, but when twintone was renamed pajara Paul Erlich suggested it should be augene, after augmented and Gene Smith.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:10:<h3> --><h3 id="toc5"><a name="x--Avila:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:10 -->Avila:</h3> Origin: 2011, Mike Battaglia, Ron Sword, Ryan Avella<br /> Meaning: Originally discovered by Ryan by accident while he was reading the mapping for Mavila temperament incorrectly. It is the original spelling of Ryan's surname.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:12:<h3> --><h3 id="toc6"><a name="x--Beatles:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:12 -->Beatles:</h3> Named for the 19\64 generator, since 1964 is the year the Beatlemania swept the world.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:14:<h3> --><h3 id="toc7"><a name="x--Blackwood:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:14 -->Blackwood:</h3> Origin: Middle-Path or Pre-Middle-Path<br /> Meaning: Named after Easley Blackwood's 10-out-of-15 maximally even scale.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:16:<h3> --><h3 id="toc8"><a name="x--Breed:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:16 -->Breed:</h3> The rank three 2401/2400 temperament, named after <a class="wiki_link" href="/Graham%20Breed">Graham Breed</a>.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:18:<h3> --><h3 id="toc9"><a name="x--Catakleismic:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:18 -->Catakleismic:</h3> The "cata" prefix means "down", and the catakleismic generator is very slightly down from the hanson generator, a temperament called "kleismic" until Paul Erlich decided the name must and shall be changed.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:20:<h3> --><h3 id="toc10"><a name="x--Calenda:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:20 -->Calenda:</h3> Meaning: It is the Latin name of the first day of a month. This represents the 15/7 period, which is a candidate for the least complex minor ninth.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:22:<h3> --><h3 id="toc11"><a name="x--Catler:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:22 -->Catler:</h3> Named for <a class="wiki_link" href="/Jon%20Catler">Jon Catler</a>.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:24:<h3> --><h3 id="toc12"><a name="x--Contrapyth:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:24 --><strong>Contrapyth:</strong></h3> Meaning: Its period makes its categories run competely against i.e. "contra" any Pythagorean notion of concordance and discordance, hence "contrapyth"<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:26:<h3> --><h3 id="toc13"><a name="x--Corcovado:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:26 -->Corcovado:</h3> Meaning: It is the Portuguese word for "hunchback." This represents the period's relative fifith harmonic, which reduces to a diminished fourth (up to 458 cents) instead of a perfect one (458-538 cents).<br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:28:<h3> --><h3 id="toc14"><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:28 --> </h3> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:30:<h3> --><h3 id="toc15"><a name="x--Dicot:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:30 -->Dicot:</h3> Meaning: 3/2 is divided into 2 equal parts, hence "di-". Not sure why "-cot". "-Cot" has been suggested to originate from 'cotyledon,' the name for the embryo of a plant seed.<br /> <br /> Avella: well apparently someone decided that "cot" should refer to the fifth<br /> Avella: it is arbitrary<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:32:<h3> --><h3 id="toc16"><a name="x--Dominant:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:32 -->Dominant:</h3> Meaning: It's meantone which calls the dominant seventh chord a 4:5:6:7. It is one of the least complex 7-limit extensions of meantone.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:34:<h3> --><h3 id="toc17"><a name="x--Doublewide:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:34 -->Doublewide:</h3> Named after a type of mobile home.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:36:<h3> --><h3 id="toc18"><a name="x--Ennealimmal:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:36 -->Ennealimmal:</h3> Origin: Gene Smith<br /> Meaning: Ennealimmal has a 1/9-octave period, hence "ennea-"; the period is very close to the large limma, <a class="wiki_link" href="/27_25">27/25</a>, hence "limmal".<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:38:<h3> --><h3 id="toc19"><a name="x--Ervsec:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:38 -->Ervsec:</h3> A name derived from a scale discovered by Erv Wilson and George Secor in the 80's while George was visiting Erv.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:40:<h3> --><h3 id="toc20"><a name="x--Esmeralda:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:40 -->Esmeralda:</h3> This is name of the gypsy girl in the novel Notre Dame de Paris who turns out to be a French citizen's daughter at just the moment she is about be hung, hence the generator of Janeiro's relative neutral-small major third.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:42:<h3> --><h3 id="toc21"><a name="x--Father:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:42 -->Father:</h3> Origin: 2000s?<br /> Meaning: A combination of the words "fourth" and "third." This is meant to represent the unification of perfect fourths and major thirds in Father temperament.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:44:<h3> --><h3 id="toc22"><a name="x--Flattone:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:44 -->Flattone:</h3> Origin: Gene Smith<br /> Meaning: A variant of meantone in which the whole tone is flatter than in septimal meantone.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:46:<h3> --><h3 id="toc23"><a name="x--Glacial:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:46 -->Glacial:</h3> Origin: 2012, Igliashon Jones, Mike Battaglia<br /> Meaning: Glacial sounds like "Igliashon."<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:48:<h3> --><h3 id="toc24"><a name="x--Godzilla:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:48 -->Godzilla:</h3> Named by Gene Smith after a Japanese fictional monster; part of the daikaiju series of names for temperaments with an approximate 8/7 as generator.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:50:<h3> --><h3 id="toc25"><a name="x--Gravity:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:50 -->Gravity:</h3> Named after its 40/27 "grave fifth" generator.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:52:<h3> --><h3 id="toc26"><a name="x--Hanson:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:52 -->Hanson:</h3> Larry Hanson's 34-edo guitar (9\34 generator)<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:54:<h3> --><h3 id="toc27"><a name="x--Harry:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:54 -->Harry:</h3> Derived from a theory that you might be able to play the music of Harry Partch in it without driving him nuts so long as you didn't say that was what you were doing.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:56:<h3> --><h3 id="toc28"><a name="x--Hedgehog:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:56 -->Hedgehog:</h3> So named because it is in the PORCUPINE family, but different.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:58:<h3> --><h3 id="toc29"><a name="x--Heinz:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:58 -->Heinz:</h3> Named after the fact that 26\57 is a possible generator (which represents 11/8).<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:60:<h3> --><h3 id="toc30"><a name="x--Helmholtz:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:60 -->Helmholtz:</h3> So named because Hermann von Helmholtz proposed 1/8-schisma flattened fifths.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:62:<h3> --><h3 id="toc31"><a name="x--Hugo:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:62 -->Hugo:</h3> Victor Hugo wrote the novel Notre Dame de Paris, hence being the Janeiro temperament generated by 19/84 period.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:64:<h3> --><h3 id="toc32"><a name="x--Italic:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:64 --><strong>Italic:</strong></h3> Origin: 2012<br /> Named from the race of the Neapolitan people (the namesake of the 8:6:5 triad in common pratctice tonality and the most consonant 6-3 triad)<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:66:<h3> --><h3 id="toc33"><a name="x--Injera:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:66 -->Injera:</h3> Origin: Paul Erlich<br /> Meaning: Named after an Ethiopian flatbread because 26edo represents it well, and the Ethiopian alphabet has 26 consonants.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:68:<h3> --><h3 id="toc34"><a name="x--Jamesbond:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:68 -->Jamesbond:</h3> Named from the fact that the wedgie is <<0 0 7 ...||<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:70:<h3> --><h3 id="toc35"><a name="x--Jamestown:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:70 -->Jamestown:</h3> Named from the possible period of 1607 cents (Jamestown, VA was established in 1607).<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:72:<h3> --><h3 id="toc36"><a name="x--Janeiro:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:72 -->Janeiro:</h3> Meaning: It is the Portuguese word for the month of January. This represents the leading "1" of the (diatonic) semitone which is generally the octave reduction of the temperament's period.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:74:<h3> --><h3 id="toc37"><a name="x--Keemun:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:74 -->Keemun:</h3> Keemun (simplified Chinese: 祁门红茶; traditional Chinese: 祁門紅茶; pinyin: qímén hóngchá; literally "Qimen red tea") is a black Chinese tea with a winey and fruity taste, designated as a China Famous Tea. Since it sounds sort of like kleismic, it was given this name in Paul Erlich's Middle Path paper, thereby ending the unfortunate practice of calling this temperament, a 7-limit extension of hanson with a much lower accuracy, by the name "kleismic" also.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:76:<h3> --><h3 id="toc38"><a name="x--Kilometric:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:76 -->Kilometric:</h3> So named because the comma called the "meter" is exactly the 1000th root of its period.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:78:<h3> --><h3 id="toc39"><a name="x--Lampante:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:78 -->Lampante:</h3> Named for the lowest grade of olive oil because the 30/13 period is equally weak as either a ninth or a tenth.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:80:<h3> --><h3 id="toc40"><a name="x--Mabila:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:80 -->Mabila:</h3> Origin: 2011, Gene Smith, Ryan Avella<br /> Meaning: Named after Mavila temperament due to their similar tunings and scale structure.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:82:<h3> --><h3 id="toc41"><a name="x--Machine:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:82 -->Machine:</h3> Mike Battaglia named it because it sounded like a 4:7:9:11 machine.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:84:<h3> --><h3 id="toc42"><a name="x--Magic:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:84 --><strong>Magic</strong>:</h3> Origin: Graham Breed<br /> The "mag-" prefix stands for "major third."<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:86:<h3> --><h3 id="toc43"><a name="x--Marchettus:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:86 -->Marchettus:</h3> Named in honor of Marchettus of Padua, who suggests a cadential major tenth the size of its period in his 13th-century work on tuning theory.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:88:<h3> --><h3 id="toc44"><a name="x--Marvel:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:88 -->Marvel:</h3> Rather bizarrely, the 11-limit extension of the king of 7-limit planar temperaments <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/message/50829" rel="nofollow">was named first</a>.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:90:<h3> --><h3 id="toc45"><a name="x--Mavila:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:90 -->Mavila:</h3> Origin: 1990s? Kraig Grady<br /> Meaning: Named after the Chopi village of Mavila in Mozambique, known for their use near-equal heptatonic scales. Nobody can agree on how to pronounce this word.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:92:<h3> --><h3 id="toc46"><a name="x--Meantone:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:92 -->Meantone:</h3> Origin: Really really old<br /> Meaning: Named so because it maps the major whole tone (9/8) and the minor whole tone (10/9) to the same interval, which is near the average of the two tones in ideal tunings.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:94:<h3> --><h3 id="toc47"><a name="x--Middletown:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:94 --><strong>Middletown:</strong></h3> Origin: "2012"<br /> Meaning: Named so because its period dilates the mean (middle) tone temperament map into tempering out 64/63.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:96:<h3> --><h3 id="toc48"><a name="x--Migration:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:96 -->Migration:</h3> Origin: ?<br /> Meaning: A temperament closely related to mohajira, which means "migrating".<br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:98:<h3> --><h3 id="toc49"><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:98 --> </h3> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:100:<h3> --><h3 id="toc50"><a name="x--Miracle:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:100 -->Miracle:</h3> Origin: Paul Erlich, May 2001<br /> Double meaning: It is a miracle that this scale is so accurate! And it is an acronym "Multiple Integer Ratios Approximated Consistently, Linearly and Evenly."<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:102:<h3> --><h3 id="toc51"><a name="x--Mohajira:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:102 -->Mohajira:</h3> Origin: Jacques Dudon<br /> Meaning: from Arabic مهاجرة <em>muhājirah</em> which roughly means "migrating".<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:104:<h3> --><h3 id="toc52"><a name="x--Monocacy:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:104 -->Monocacy:</h3> Named after the Monocacy River in Frederick County, MD. Monocacy is also a play the medium minor tenth period of the temperament.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:106:<h3> --><h3 id="toc53"><a name="x--Mothra:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:106 -->Mothra:</h3> Named by Gene Smith after a Japanese fictional monster: a daikaiju name for a temperament with ~8/7 generator. Mothra has defeated Godzilla more times than any other daikaiju; the musical meaning of this fact is at best speculative.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:108:<h3> --><h3 id="toc54"><a name="x--Myna:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:108 -->Myna:</h3> Myna is related to starling, the 126/125 planar temperament, and a myna is a member of the starling family (Sturnidae.) Myna is also a play on minor third, the generator.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:110:<h3> --><h3 id="toc55"><a name="x--Napoli:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:110 -->Napoli:</h3> Means "Naples" in Italian, given by the fact the its relative subminor triad is the Neapolitan sixth triad.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:112:<h3> --><h3 id="toc56"><a name="x--Negri ("negripent", "negrisept"):"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:112 -->Negri ("negripent", "negrisept"):</h3> Origin: 2001, (Paul Erlich?)<br /> Meaning: Named after John Negri's 10-out-of-19 maximally even scale.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:114:<h3> --><h3 id="toc57"><a name="x--Notre Dame:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:114 -->Notre Dame:</h3> Meaning: The cathedral Notre Dame de Paris is featured in a novel beginning in the month of January (the novel also contains a hunchback), and was also home to the first school of polyphony in European history; therefore the 32/15 period.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:116:<h3> --><h3 id="toc58"><a name="x--Octacot:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:116 -->Octacot:</h3> Meaning: 3/2 is divided into 8 equal parts, therefore "octa-".<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:118:<h3> --><h3 id="toc59"><a name="x--Orgone:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:118 -->Orgone:</h3> Origin: 2010, Andrew Heathwaite<br /> Meaning: An analogy between Wilhelm Reich's proposal for an invisible, ephemeral creative energy and the subtleties of the higher harmonics 7 and 11. Superkleismic can be viewed as orgone extended to the full 11-limit.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:120:<h3> --><h3 id="toc60"><a name="x--Oriole:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:120 -->Oriole:</h3> Because the Middletown temperament is named after Middletown, MD, Maryland's state bird gets to be the namesake of the temperament with a 12/5 period. (N. B. In spite of the name, the MOS for it is not limited to linear combinations of 3L 4s and 9L 4s)<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:122:<h3> --><h3 id="toc61"><a name="x--Orwell:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:122 -->Orwell:</h3> Origin: 2001, Gene Smith<br /> Meaning: Named after George Orwell's book 1984, because of the generator of 19\84.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:124:<h3> --><h3 id="toc62"><a name="x--Pajara:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:124 -->Pajara:</h3> Origin: Originally (up to 2001) paultone and then twintone, in analogy with meantone, but Paul Erlich didn't like this and suggested pajara, after "Paul, John, and Ara," the three people jamming at his house at some random point in time.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:126:<h3> --><h3 id="toc63"><a name="x--Potomac:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:126 -->Potomac:</h3> Named after the Potomac River, into which the Monocacy and the Shenandoah empty; hence its period of a neutral tenth.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:128:<h3> --><h3 id="toc64"><a name="x--Porcupine:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:128 -->Porcupine:</h3> Origin: 1999? Herman Miller<br /> Meaning: Named after Herman Miller's Mizarian Porcupine Overture in 15-EDO.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:130:<h3> --><h3 id="toc65"><a name="x--Quadritikleismic:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:130 -->Quadritikleismic:</h3> Quadritikleismic has a kleismic generator, so that (6/5)^6 = 3, and four periods per octave, therefore quadri-.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:132:<h3> --><h3 id="toc66"><a name="x--Rodan:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:132 -->Rodan:</h3> Named by Gene Smith after a Japanese fictional monster. A daikaiju name, from the 8/7 generator.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:134:<h3> --><h3 id="toc67"><a name="x--Rosada:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:134 -->Rosada:</h3> The red of roses and of green of emeralds are complementary colors, hence the complementary structure to the Esmeralda scale.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:136:<h3> --><h3 id="toc68"><a name="x--Semaphore:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:136 -->Semaphore:</h3> Meaning: semi-fourth, i.e. half of a 4/3.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:138:<h3> --><h3 id="toc69"><a name="x--Semisept:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:138 -->Semisept:</h3> Meaning: semi-(septimal major sixth), i.e. half of a 12/7.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:140:<h3> --><h3 id="toc70"><a name="x--Sensi: (also 'Sensipent,' 'Sensisept')"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:140 -->Sensi: (also 'Sensipent,' 'Sensisept')</h3> Originally semisixths, but after it was decided that "bi" or "semi" should be half for periods and "hemi" should be half for generators, that was contracted to sensi.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:142:<h3> --><h3 id="toc71"><a name="x--Shenandoah:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:142 -->Shenandoah:</h3> Named after the Shenandoah River in Virginia. The initial "sh" is palatal like the "j" in "major"; as in the period of the medium major tenth.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:144:<h3> --><h3 id="toc72"><a name="x--Slendric:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:144 -->Slendric:</h3> Named after slendro which it resembles very little.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:146:<h3> --><h3 id="toc73"><a name="x--Squares:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:146 -->Squares:</h3> Named from the fact that the wedgie is <<4 16 9 ...||, which is 2^2, 4^2, 3^2.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:148:<h3> --><h3 id="toc74"><a name="x--Starling:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:148 -->Starling:</h3> The 126/125 planar temperament, named after Herman Miller's Starling scale.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:150:<h3> --><h3 id="toc75"><a name="x--Srutal:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:150 -->Srutal:</h3> A name proposed by Paul Erlich because the 22-tone MOS looks a lot like the Indian Shruti scale.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:152:<h3> --><h3 id="toc76"><a name="x--Superkleismic:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:152 -->Superkleismic:</h3> The 6/5 generator is ~322 cents, sharper than the kleismic 6/5, hence "super-". For all practical purposes the same thing as orgone.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:154:<h3> --><h3 id="toc77"><a name="x--Superpyth:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:154 -->Superpyth:</h3> Meaning: fifths are wider than Pythagorean, hence super-Pythagorean or "superpyth"<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:156:<h3> --><h3 id="toc78"><a name="x--Tetracot:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:156 -->Tetracot:</h3> Meaning: 3/2 is divided into 4 equal parts, hence "tetra-". Not sure why "-cot" (see Dicot above).<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:158:<h3> --><h3 id="toc79"><a name="x--Triforce:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:158 -->Triforce:</h3> Triforce has 3 periods per octave, hence tri-.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:160:<h3> --><h3 id="toc80"><a name="x--Tritikleismic:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:160 -->Tritikleismic:</h3> Tritikleismic has a kleismic generator, so that (6/5)^6 = 3, and 3 periods per octave (therefore tri-.)<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:162:<h3> --><h3 id="toc81"><a name="x--Valentine:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:162 -->Valentine:</h3> Named for Robert C Valentine.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:164:<h3> --><h3 id="toc82"><a name="x--Victoria:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:164 -->Victoria:</h3> Victoria is the feminine form of "Victor," hence being the inverse of Hugo.<br /> <br /> <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:166:<h3> --><h3 id="toc83"><a name="x--Whitewood:"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:166 -->Whitewood:</h3> Meaning: Black keys are to Blackwood as white keys are to Whitewood.</body></html>