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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.
The twelfth root of two or (or equivalently /) is an algebraic irrational number, approximately equal to 1.0594631.It is most important in Western music theory, where it represents the frequency ratio (musical interval) of a semitone (Play ⓘ) in twelve-tone equal temperament.
[1] In equal temperament, all the semitones have the same size (100 cents), and there are twelve semitones in an octave (1200 cents). As a result, the notes of an equal-tempered chromatic scale are equally-spaced. The chromatic scale...is a series of half steps which comprises all the pitches of our [12-tone] equal-tempered system.
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 ...
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 ...
If the notes are ordered, a decatonic set has 3,628,800 permutations, [3] however, in twelve tone equal temperament only six unordered ten note sets exist, 10-1—10-6: Play 10-1 ⓘ (all pitch classes but t & e)