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12-tone equal temperament chromatic scale on C, one full octave ascending, notated only with sharps. Play ascending and descending ⓘ. 12 equal temperament (12-ET) [a] is the musical system that divides the octave into 12 parts, all of which are equally tempered (equally spaced) on a logarithmic scale, with a ratio equal to the 12th root of 2 (≈ 1.05946).
12 tone equal temperament chromatic scale on C, one full octave ascending, notated only with sharps. Play ascending and descending ⓘ. An equal temperament is a musical temperament or tuning system that approximates just intervals by dividing an octave (or other interval) into steps such that the ratio of the frequencies of any adjacent pair of notes is the same.
This phenomenon gives rise to infinite shades of key-colors, which are lost in the modern standard version: 12-tone equal temperament (12-TET). Unlike meantone temperament , which alters the fifth to "temper out" the syntonic comma, 12-TET tempers out the Pythagorean comma , thus creating a cycle of fifths that repeats itself exactly after 12 ...
Twelve-tone equal temperament (12 TET) is obtained by making all semitones the same size, with each equal to one-twelfth of an octave; i.e. with ratios 12 √ 2 : 1. Relative to Pythagorean tuning , it narrows the perfect fifths by about 2 cents or 1 / 12 th of a Pythagorean comma to give a frequency ratio of 2 7 / 12 : 1 {\displaystyle ...
The chromatic scale is a musical scale with twelve pitches, each a semitone, also known as a half-step, above or below its adjacent pitches. As a result, in 12-tone equal temperament (the most common tuning in Western music), the chromatic scale covers all 12 of the available pitches. Thus, there is only one chromatic scale.
Played in equal temperament. The standard twelve-tone equal temperament is a special case of meantone temperament (extended eleventh-comma), in which the twelve notes are separated by logarithmically equal distances (100 cents): A harmonized C major scale in equal temperament (.ogg format, 96.9 KB).
The term "macrotonal" has been used for intervals wider than twelve-tone equal temperament, [75] [better source needed] or where there are "fewer than twelve notes per octave", though "this term is not very satisfactory and is used only because there seems to be no other". [76] The term "macrotonal" has also been used for musical form. [77]
If the generators are all the prime numbers up to a given prime p, we have what is called p-limit just intonation.Sometimes some irrational number close to one of these primes is substituted (an example of tempering) to favour other primes, as in twelve tone equal temperament where 3 is tempered to 2 19 ⁄ 12 to favour 2, or in quarter-comma meantone where 3 is tempered to 2 4 √ 5 to favor ...