User:Zhenlige
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The author of XenNote, a game mod for playing xenharmonic music in Minecraft.
I am more a theorist than a musician. My motivation of studying xen is acturally due to my interest in math.
When acturally work with xen music, I only use softwares, since I cannot play any instruments well — even 12edo ones. When working with different timbres, I feel that consonance and dissonance differs. Complex JI intervals (e.g. 81/64) are more consonant than tempered simple intervals (e.g. a meantone fifth) for synthetic waves (specifically the semisine wave in Scale Workshop), but vise versa for real instrument samples.
Personal terminology definitions
- Microtonal: music using finer-than-12edo tunings (non-12edo meantone tuning included)
- Xenharmonic: music that cannot be interpreted as 5-limit 12et without severe damage (12edo music using 17 or 19 included, most 5-limit meantone music excluded)
Interval naming (thirds as an example)
| septimal minor | 7/6 |
| (diatonic) minor | 32/27 |
| classical minor | 6/5 |
| neutral | sqrt(3/2) |
| classical major | 5/4 |
| (diatonic) major | 81/64 |
| septimal major | 9/7 |
Useful links
- 12neji
- 171edo scales
- Chromatic notation
- Chromatic notation/zh-CN
- Diatonic detemperings
- EDO impressions
- Earth171
- Introduction to Sagittal
- Introduction to Sagittal/zh-CN
- Luma chain demisharp
- Luma chain sharp
- Pentatonic notation
- RTT notes
- Sandbox
- Sandbox/1
- The proportional-beating property of near-JI FDR chords
- common.css