User:Frostburn/TAMNAMS Extension
This is a proposed systematic extension for the TAMNAMS MOS scale naming system based on parent / grandparent relationships. It's intended for a user interface so that every MOS pattern has a memorable name.
Diatonic family
This system introduces the following names for (grand)daughters of diatonic 5L 2s.
Daughters | ||
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Pattern | Name | Notes |
5L 7s | pychromatic | Chromatic scale from pythagorean generator 3/2 |
7L 5s | mechromatic | Chromatic scale of meantone |
Granddaughters | ||
Pattern | Name | Notes |
12L 5s | pyenharmonic | Enharmonic scale from 3/2 generator |
5L 12s | shenharmonic | Enharmonic scale of sharp (super)pyth |
7L 12s | meanharmonic | Enharmonic scale of meantone |
12L 7s | flenharmonic | Enharmonic scale of flattone |
Great-granddaughters | ||
Pattern | Name | Notes |
12L 17s | pythagotonic | Generator is 3/2. Small step is the Pythagorean comma |
17L 12s | antipythagotonic | |
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 | gothitonic | Possible generator 128/85 falls in the Neo-Gothic range |
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 | antivelic | |
Great-great-granddaughters | ||
Pattern | Name | Notes |
12L 29s | uso-pychrotonic | Generator is 3/2. Name derives from pychromatic, see naming schemes below. |
12L 31s | uso-mellowtonic | Name derives from mechromatic. |
17L 22s | miha-pychrotonic | |
17L 29s | miso-pychrotonic | |
19L 26s | miha-mellowtonic | |
19L 31s | miso-mellowtonic | |
22L 17s | quha-pychrotonic | |
22L 5s | paha-pychrotonic | |
26L 19s | quha-mellowtonic | |
26L 7s | paha-mellowtonic | |
29L 12s | paso-pychrotonic | |
29L 17s | quso-pychrotonic | |
31L 12s | paso-mellowtonic | |
31L 19s | quso-mellowtonic | |
5L 22s | uha-pychrotonic | |
7L 26s | uha-mellowtonic | |
Great-great-great-granddaughters | ||
Pattern | Name | Notes |
41L 12s | pythomerc | Generator is 3/2. Transitional scale between ones dominated by pythagorean and mercator commas. |
Woods
Trivial multi-MOS scales of n periods are named n-wood or spelled out resulting in: hexawood, septawood, octawood, nonawood and decawood.
Daughter scales
The system introduces stems derived from the prefixes of select MOS scales under 10 notes. If the parent of a basic MOS scale is hard the name is (stem)pechromic (analogous to pychromatic). If the parent of a basic MOS scale is soft the name is (stem)mechromic (analogous to mechromatic).
Granddaughter scales
Granddaughters are analogues of menharmonic, flenharmonic, pyenharmonic and shenharmonic.
Basic granddaughter scales | |
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Grandparent step-ratio | Name scheme |
4:3 | (stem)menharmic |
5:3 | (stem)fenharmic |
5:2 | (stem)penharmic |
4:1 | (stem)senharmic |
Great-granddaughter scales
Great-granddaughters derive names from the hardness of the great-grandparent scale e.g. minisoft becomes miso.
Basic great-granddaughter scales | |
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Great-grandparent step-ratio | Name scheme |
5:1 | uha-(stem)tonic |
7:2 | paha-(stem)tonic |
5:4 | uso-(stem)tonic |
7:5 | paso-(stem)tonic |
7:3 | miha-(stem)tonic |
8:3 | quha-(stem)tonic |
7:4 | miso-(stem)tonic |
8:5 | quso-(stem)tonic |
Trollic
Trollic is a name given to 12L 1s by Godtone, but in order to troll even further the name is given to 13L 1s instead.
Table of MOS scales up to 20 notes
The table below lists all MOS scales and their stems needed to generate everything with assignable names in the system.
6-note mosses | ||
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Pattern | Name | Stem |
5L 1s | machinoid | mecha |
7-note mosses | ||
Pattern | Name | Stem |
4L 3s | smitonic | smi |
6L 1s | archeotonic | archeo |
8-note mosses | ||
Pattern | Name | Stem |
3L 5s | checkertonic | checke |
4L 4s | tetrawood | tetwood |
5L 3s | oneirotonic | neiro |
6L 2s | ekic | eki |
7L 1s | pine | pine |
9-note mosses | ||
Pattern | Name | Stem |
2L 7s | balzano | balo |
3L 6s | tcherepnin | chere |
4L 5s | gramitonic | grami |
5L 4s | semiquartal | chtono |
6L 3s | hyrulic | hyru |
7L 2s | superdiatonic | armo |
8L 1s | subneutralic | blu |
10-note mosses | ||
Pattern | Name | Stem |
1L 9s | antisinatonic | asina |
2L 8s | jaric | jara |
3L 7s | sephiroid | sephi |
4L 6s | lime | lime |
5L 5s | pentawood | penwood |
6L 4s | lemon | lemo |
7L 3s | dicoid | dico |
8L 2s | taric | tara |
9L 1s | sinatonic | sina |
11-note mosses | ||
Pattern | Name | Stem |
1L 10s | asinapechromic | none |
2L 9s | balopechromic | none |
3L 8s | checkepechromic | none |
4L 7s | smipechromic | none |
5L 6s | mechapechromic | none |
6L 5s | mechamechromic | none |
7L 4s | smimechromic | none |
8L 3s | checkemechromic | none |
9L 2s | balomechromic | none |
10L 1s | asinamechromic | none |
12-note mosses | ||
Pattern | Name | Stem |
1L 11s | asinasenharmic | none |
2L 10s | jarapechromic | none |
3L 9s | cherepechromic | none |
4L 8s | tetwoodpechromic | none |
5L 7s | pychromatic | pychro |
6L 6s | hexawood | hexwood |
7L 5s | mechromatic | mellow |
8L 4s | tetwoodmechromic | none |
9L 3s | cheremechromic | none |
10L 2s | jaramechromic | none |
11L 1s | asinapenharmic | none |
13-note mosses | ||
Pattern | Name | Stem |
1L 12s | uha-asinatonic | none |
2L 11s | balosenharmic | none |
3L 10s | sephipechromic | none |
4L 9s | gramipechromic | none |
5L 8s | neiropechromic | none |
6L 7s | archeopechromic | none |
7L 6s | archeomechromic | none |
8L 5s | neiromechromic | none |
9L 4s | gramimechromic | none |
10L 3s | sephimechromic | none |
11L 2s | balopenharmic | none |
12L 1s | paha-asinatonic | none |
14-note mosses | ||
Pattern | Name | Stem |
1L 13s | antrollic | antro |
2L 12s | jarasenharmic | none |
3L 11s | checkesenharmic | none |
4L 10s | limepechromic | none |
5L 9s | chtonopechromic | none |
6L 8s | ekipechromic | none |
7L 7s | septawood | septwood |
8L 6s | ekimechromic | none |
9L 5s | chtonomechromic | none |
10L 4s | limemechromic | none |
11L 3s | checkepenharmic | none |
12L 2s | jarapenharmic | none |
13L 1s | trollic | tro |
15-note mosses | ||
Pattern | Name | Stem |
1L 14s | antropechromic | none |
2L 13s | uha-balotonic | none |
3L 12s | cheresenharmic | none |
4L 11s | smisenharmic | none |
5L 10s | penwoodpechromic | none |
6L 9s | hyrupechromic | none |
7L 8s | pinepechromic | none |
8L 7s | pinemechromic | none |
9L 6s | hyrumechromic | none |
10L 5s | penwoodmechromic | none |
11L 4s | smipenharmic | none |
12L 3s | cherepenharmic | none |
13L 2s | paha-balotonic | none |
14L 1s | antromechromic | none |
16-note mosses | ||
Pattern | Name | Stem |
1L 15s | antrosenharmic | none |
2L 14s | uha-jaratonic | none |
3L 13s | sephisenharmic | none |
4L 12s | tetwoodsenharmic | none |
5L 11s | mechasenharmic | none |
6L 10s | lemopechromic | none |
7L 9s | armopechromic | none |
8L 8s | octawood | octwood |
9L 7s | armomechromic | none |
10L 6s | lemomechromic | none |
11L 5s | mechapenharmic | none |
12L 4s | tetwoodpenharmic | none |
13L 3s | sephipenharmic | none |
14L 2s | paha-jaratonic | none |
15L 1s | antropenharmic | none |
17-note mosses | ||
Pattern | Name | Stem |
1L 16s | uha-antrotonic | none |
2L 15s | none | none |
3L 14s | uha-checketonic | none |
4L 13s | gramisenharmic | none |
5L 12s | shenharmonic | none |
6L 11s | mechamenharmic | none |
7L 10s | dicopechromic | none |
8L 9s | blupechromic | none |
9L 8s | blumechromic | none |
10L 7s | dicomechromic | none |
11L 6s | mechafenharmic | none |
12L 5s | pyenharmonic | none |
13L 4s | gramipenharmic | none |
14L 3s | paha-checketonic | none |
15L 2s | none | none |
16L 1s | paha-antrotonic | none |
18-note mosses | ||
Pattern | Name | Stem |
1L 17s | none | none |
2L 16s | none | none |
3L 15s | uha-cheretonic | none |
4L 14s | limesenharmic | none |
5L 13s | neirosenharmic | none |
6L 12s | hexwoodpechromic | none |
7L 11s | smimenharmic | none |
8L 10s | tarapechromic | none |
9L 9s | nonawood | nonwood |
10L 8s | taramechromic | none |
11L 7s | smifenharmic | none |
12L 6s | hexwoodmechromic | none |
13L 5s | neiropenharmic | none |
14L 4s | limepenharmic | none |
15L 3s | paha-cheretonic | none |
16L 2s | none | none |
17L 1s | none | none |
19-note mosses | ||
Pattern | Name | Stem |
1L 18s | none | none |
2L 17s | none | none |
3L 16s | uha-sephitonic | none |
4L 15s | uha-smitonic | none |
5L 14s | chtonosenharmic | none |
6L 13s | archeosenharmic | none |
7L 12s | meanharmonic | none |
8L 11s | checkemenharmic | none |
9L 10s | sinapechromic | none |
10L 9s | sinamechromic | none |
11L 8s | checkefenharmic | none |
12L 7s | flenharmonic | none |
13L 6s | archeopenharmic | none |
14L 5s | chtonopenharmic | none |
15L 4s | paha-smitonic | none |
16L 3s | paha-sephitonic | none |
17L 2s | none | none |
18L 1s | none | none |
20-note mosses | ||
Pattern | Name | Stem |
1L 19s | none | none |
2L 18s | none | none |
3L 17s | none | none |
4L 16s | uha-tetwoodtonic | none |
5L 15s | penwoodsenharmic | none |
6L 14s | ekisenharmic | none |
7L 13s | archeomenharmic | none |
8L 12s | tetwoodmenharmic | none |
9L 11s | balomenharmic | none |
10L 10s | decawood | decwood |
11L 9s | balofenharmic | none |
12L 8s | tetwoodfenharmic | none |
13L 7s | archeofenharmic | none |
14L 6s | ekipenharmic | none |
15L 5s | penwoodpenharmic | none |
16L 4s | paha-tetwoodtonic | none |
17L 3s | none | none |
18L 2s | none | none |
19L 1s | none | none |