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  2. 12 equal temperament - Wikipedia

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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).

  3. Musical temperament - Wikipedia

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    In the words of William Hubbard's Musical Dictionary (1908), an anomalous chord is a "chord containing an interval" that "has been made very sharp or flat in tempering the scale for instruments of fixed pitches". [2] The development of well temperament allowed fixed-pitch instruments to play reasonably well in all of the keys.

  4. The Chicago Manual of Style - Wikipedia

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    In both instances, the citation is also placed in a bibliography entry at the end of the material, listed in alphabetical order of the author's last name. [13] The two formats differ: notes use commas where bibliography entries use periods. [14] The following is an example of a journal article citation provided as a note and its bibliography entry.

  5. Equal temperament - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Meantone temperament - Wikipedia

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    For 12 tone equally-tempered tuning, the fifths have to be tempered by considerably less than a ⁠ 1 / 4 ⁠ comma (very close to a ⁠ 1 / 11 ⁠ syntonic comma, or a ⁠ 1 / 12 ⁠ Pythagorean comma), since they must form a perfect cycle, with no gap at the end, whereas ⁠ 1 / 4 ⁠ comma meantone tuning, as mentioned above, has a residual ...

  7. APA style - Wikipedia

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    APA style (also known as APA format) is a writing style and format for academic documents such as scholarly journal articles and books. It is commonly used for citing sources within the field of behavioral and social sciences, including sociology, education, nursing, criminal justice, anthropology, and psychology.

  8. Four temperaments - Wikipedia

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    Even Galen proposed a theory of the importance of proper digestion in forming healthy blood. The idea was that the two most important factors when digesting are the types of food and the person's body temperature. This meant that if too much heat were involved, then the blood would become "overcooked."

  9. Temperament - Wikipedia

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    Even though temperament and psychiatric disorders can be presented as, correspondingly, weak and strong imbalances within the same regulatory systems, it is incorrect to say that temperament is a weak degree of these disorders.