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Most just intonation tunings have the problem that they cannot modulate to a different key (a very common means of expression throughout the common practice period of music) without discarding many of the tones used in the previous key, thus for every key to which the musician wishes to modulate, the instrument must provide a few more strings ...
Equal temperament and just intonation compared ⓘ A pair of major thirds, followed by a pair of full major chords. The first in each pair is in equal temperament; the second is in just intonation. Piano sound. Equal temperament and just intonation compared with square waveform ⓘ A pair of major chords. The first is in equal temperament; the ...
List of musical scales and modes Name Image Sound Degrees Intervals Integer notation # of pitch classes Lower tetrachord Upper tetrachord Use of key signature usual or unusual ; 15 equal temperament
The Pythagorean scale is any scale which can be constructed from only pure perfect fifths (3:2) and octaves (2:1). [5] In Greek music it was used to tune tetrachords, which were composed into scales spanning an octave. [6] A distinction can be made between extended Pythagorean tuning and a 12-tone Pythagorean temperament.
A regular temperament is any tempered system of musical tuning such that each frequency ratio is obtainable as a product of powers of a finite number of generators, or generating frequency ratios. For instance, in 12-TET , the system of music most commonly used in the Western world, the generator is a tempered fifth (700 cents), which is the ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Just tunings instead. ... Werckmeister temperament; Y. Young temperament This page was ...
In music theory, the circle of fifths (sometimes also cycle of fifths) is a way of organizing pitches as a sequence of perfect fifths. Starting on a C, and using the standard system of tuning for Western music (12-tone equal temperament), the sequence is: C, G, D, A, E, B, F ♯ /G ♭, C ♯ /D ♭, G ♯ /A ♭, D ♯ /E ♭, A ♯ /B ♭, F ...
Xenharmonic music is music that uses a tuning system that is unlike the 12-tone equal temperament scale. It was named by Ivor Darreg , from the Greek xenos ( Greek ξένος ) meaning both foreign and hospitable .