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meantone tunings are
syntonic tunings. All
syntonic tunings,
including the
meantones and the
various just intonations,
conceivably have an
infinite number...
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equal temperament is used; for example, they are not the same
thing in
meantone temperament,
where the
diatonic semitone is
distinguished from and larger...
- Quarter-comma
meantone perfect fifth on C
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media help. Quarter-comma
meantone, or 1 / 4 -comma
meantone, was the most...
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widely used in the
sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries: the quarter-comma
meantone temperament. More broadly, it is also used to
refer to
similar intervals...
- The
following is a list of
intervals of
extended meantone temperament.
These intervals constitute the
standard vocabulary of
intervals for the Western...
- 71 cents (Play). 31 EDO is a very good
approximation of quarter-comma
meantone temperament. More generally, it is a
regular diatonic tuning in
which the...
- performance. Historically, the use of just intonation,
Pythagorean tuning and
meantone temperament meant that such
instruments could sound "in tune" in one key...
- "linear temperament". The best-known
example of
linear temperaments are
meantone temperaments,
where the
generating intervals are
usually given in terms...
- 17-limit intonation.
Meantone refers to
meantone temperament,
where the
whole tone is the mean of the
major third. In general, a
meantone is
constructed in...
- In music,
septimal meantone temperament, also
called standard septimal meantone or
simply septimal meantone,
refers to the
tempering of 7-limit musical...
