User:Ganaram inukshuk/Extended TAMNAMS names

This article is a work-in-progress, proposed rewrite of the following page: TAMNAMS Extension and User:Ganaram inukshuk/TAMNAMS Extension

This page assumes the reader is familiar with TAMNAMS mos names.

This page describes additional temperament-agnostic mos names that fit the style of TAMNAMS but are either unofficial names (eg, names conjured up by other theorists), former names (not including abandoned names), or names given to mosses for the sake of completeness.

Names for mosses with 2 to 5 steps

Names for mosses with 2-5 steps are given names primarily for completeness. These names are designed to be as general as possible so that they can be used for non-octave contexts, with the exception of the names monowood and biwood, for which the mos must either be octave-equivalent or have a tempered-octave equivalence interval.

Names for mosses with 2 to 5 steps

2-note mosses
Pattern	Name	Prefix	Abbr.	Non-octave periods allowed?	Etymology
1L 1s	trivial	triv-	trv	yes	the simplest valid mos pattern
	monowood	monowd-	wood	no	generalized blackwood and whitewood scales for nL ns
3-note mosses
Pattern	Name	Prefix	Abbr.	Non-octave periods allowed?	Etymology
1L 2s	antrial	atri-	atri	yes	broader range than trial so named w.r.t. it (anti-trial; antial; antrial)
2L 1s	trial	tri-	tri	yes	from tri- for 3
4-note mosses
Pattern	Name	Prefix	Abbr.	Non-octave periods allowed?	Etymology
1L 3s	antetric	atetra-	att	yes	broader range than tetric so named w.r.t. it (anti-tetric; antetric)
2L 2s	biwood	biwd-	bw	no	generalized blackwood and whitewood scales for nL ns
3L 1s	tetric	tetra-	tt	yes	from tetra- for 4
5-note mosses
Pattern	Name	Prefix	Abbr.	Non-octave periods allowed?	Etymology
1L 4s	pedal	ped-	ped	yes	one big toe and four small toes
2L 3s	pentic	pent-	pt	yes	common pentatonic; from penta- for 5
3L 2s	antipentic	apent-	apt	yes	opposite pattern of common pentatonic mos
4L 1s	manual	manu-	manu	yes	one thumb and four longer fingers

Names for mosses that descend from 5L 2s

Names for mosses that descend from 5L 2s are made by Frostburn, as an expansion to the former TAMNAMS names m-chromatic and p-chromatic.

Diatonic (5L 2s) descendants

Daughters
Pattern	Name	Notes
5L 7s	p-chromatic	Chromatic scale from pythagorean generator 3/2. S-chromatic is an alternative name.
7L 5s	m-chromatic	Chromatic scale of meantone. F-chromatic is an alternative name.
Granddaughters
Pattern	Name	Notes
12L 5s	p-enharmonic	Enharmonic scale from pythagorean generator.
5L 12s	s-enharmonic	Enharmonic scale of superpyth.
12L 7s	m-enharmonic	Enharmonic scale of meantone.
7L 12s	f-enharmonic	Enharmonic scale of flattone.
Great-granddaughters
Pattern	Name	Notes
12L 17s	pythagotonic	Generator is 3/2. Small step is the Pythagorean comma
17L 12s	gothitonic	Generator falls in the neo-gothic range.
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	protofractalic	Daughter scales exhibit fractal-like acoustic effects
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	siskoic	Play on words: Veli means brother in Finnish and sisko means sister.
Great-great-granddaughters
Pattern	Name	Notes
12L 29s	pythamystonic	Generator is 3/2. Large step is mystery comma. Small step is pythagorean comma.
29L 12s	antipythamystonic
12L 31s	fauxmuscovian	Parent is fauxrussian. Muscovy is a sub region of Russia.
31L 12s	fauxsiberian	Parent is fauxrussian. Siberia is a sub region of Russia.
19L 31s	fauxsaudi	Parent is fauxarabian. Saudis live in a sub region of Arabia.
31L 19s	fauxomani	Parent is fauxarabian. Omani live in a sub region of Arabia.
22L 17s	fractalic	Exhibits fractal-like acoustic effects.
17L 22s	antifractalic
17L 29s	perotinic	Parent is gothitonic. Pérotin has been described as the first modern composer in the Western tradition.
29L 17s	martinic	Parent is gothitonic. Simone Martini influenced Gothic style painting.
19L 26s	veljentyttonic	Parent is velic. Veljentyttö means niece from the brother's side in Finnish.
26L 19s	veljenpoikanic	Parent is velic. Veljenpoika means nephew from the brother's side in Finnish.
7L 26s	siskontyttonic	Parent is siskoic. Siskontyttö means niece from the sister's side in Finnish.
26L 7s	siskonpoikanic	Parent is siskoic. Siskonpoika means nephew from the sister's side in Finnish.
5L 22s	reinatonic	Parent is reinhardic.
22L 5s	antireinatonic	Parent is reinhardic.
Great-great-great-granddaughters
Pattern	Name	Notes
12L 41s	antipythomerc
41L 12s	pythomerc	Generator is 3/2. Transitional scale between ones dominated by pythagorean and mercator commas.

Names for k-wood (nL ns) mosses

Mosses of the form kL ks are named k-wood. If k is greater than 5 and no greater than 12, these can be written out as (Greek numeral prefix)wood, as shown in the table below.

MOS	Name	Prefix	Abbrev.
6L 6s	hexawood	hexwd-	hxw
7L 7s	heptawood	hepwd-	hpw
8L 8s	octawood	octwd-	ocw
9L 9s	enneawood	ennwd-	enw
10L 10s	decawood	decwd-	dkw
11L 11s	hendecawood	hedwd-	hdw
12L 12s	dodecawood	dodwd-	ddw
13L 13s	13-wood	13wd-	13w
14L 14s	14-wood	14wd-	14w
kL ks	k-wood	kwd	kw

Names for mosses with more than 10 steps

Names for mosses with 11-15 notes

11-note mosses
Pattern	Suggested name(s)	Proposed by	Reasoning
1L 10s	tanzanite, tenorite	Ganaram inukshuk	More naming puns (tenzanite or tenorite).
4L 7s	kleistonic		Former TAMNAMS name.
7L 4s	suprasmitonic		Former TAMNAMS name.
	daemotonic	Eliora	Various reasons; see 7L 4s.
9L 2s	villatonic	Ganaram inukshuk	Indirectly references avila and casablanca temperaments.
	ultradiatonic, superarmotonic	CompactStar	In reference to diatonic and armotonic.
12-note mosses
Pattern	Suggested name(s)	Proposed by	Reasoning
1L 11s	helenite	Ganaram inukshuk	In reference to the "ele" substring found in the word "eleven".
5L 7s	p-chromatic		Former TAMNAMS name.
6L 6s	hexawood		Extension of k-wood scales; coincidentally references hexe temperament.
7L 5s	m-chromatic		Former TAMNAMS name.
13-note mosses
Pattern	Suggested name(s)	Proposed by	Reasoning
1L 12s	zircon	Ganaram inukshuk	Zircon is used as a birthstone for December.
11L 2s	hendecoid	Eliora	From Greek "eleven"; references how "its generator is so close to 11/8 as to be called nothing but that" and that it has 11 large steps.
14-note mosses
Pattern	Suggested name(s)	Proposed by	Reasoning
7L 7s	heptawood		Extension of k-wood scales.
13L 1s	trollic	Godtone	The name proposed by Godtone refers to 12L 1s, but it refers to 13L 1s as a troll move.

Mosses with 16 or more notes

Note count	Pattern	Suggested name(s)	Proposed by	Reasoning
17	2L 15s	liesic	Frostburn	Frostburn's naming scheme only goes up to 3 generations, so this name is suggested.
19	3L 16s	magicaltonic	Xenllium	In reference to magic temperament.
	16L 3s	muggletonic	Xenllium	In reference to muggle temperament.
21	10L 11s	miracloid	Eliora	In reference to miracle temperament.
22	3L 19s	zheligowskic	Frostburn	In reference to Lucjan Żeligowski leading fights against the town of Giedraičiai.
	19L 3s	giedraitic	Frostburn	Named after the basic magic layout of Kite Giedraitis' guitar. Proposed prefix is "kai-".
	21L 1s	escapist	Eliora	References escapade temperament, which is supported by both 21edo and 22edo, covering the entire range.
23	22L 1s	quartismoid	Eliora	Five generators of roughly 33/32 quartertone are equal to 7/6 in the harmonic entropy minimum; also, the extreme ranges of 22edo and 23edo both support this mos.