Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
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.
The values indicated by the scale at the left are deviations in cents with respect to equal temperament. Quarter-comma meantone , which tempers each of the twelve perfect fifths by 1 / 4 of a syntonic comma , is the best known type of meantone temperament, and the term meantone temperament is often used to refer to it specifically.
The twelve equal scale is strictly proper as is any equal tempered scale because it has only one interval size for each number of steps Most tempered scales are proper too. As another example, the otonal harmonic fragment 5 ⁄ 4 , 6 ⁄ 4 , 7 ⁄ 4 , 8 ⁄ 4 is strictly proper, with the one step intervals varying in size from 8 ⁄ 7 to 5 ...
In fact, of all the factors contributing to SNL’s unbelievable success, its always-shifting ensemble might be what matters most. Bad casts can tank a season, while great casts—hell, even one ...
The just or Pythagorean perfect fifth is 3/2, and the difference between the equal tempered perfect fifth and the just is a grad, the twelfth root of the Pythagorean comma (/). The equal tempered Bohlen–Pierce scale uses the interval of the thirteenth root of three ( 3 13 {\textstyle {\sqrt[{13}]{3}}} ).
Figure 1: 19-TET on the syntonic temperament's tuning continuum at P5= 694.737 cents [1]. In music, 19 equal temperament, called 19 TET, 19 EDO ("Equal Division of the Octave"), 19-ED2 ("Equal Division of 2:1) or 19 ET, is the tempered scale derived by dividing the octave into 19 equal steps (equal frequency ratios).