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Meantone temperament - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Septimal meantone temperament - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In music, septimal meantone temperament , also called standard septimal meantone or simply septimal meantone , refers to the tempering of 7-limit musical intervals by a meantone temperament tuni...
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All the rest of Bach's music falls into the more conventional patterns of the day, most of it being quite well suited to modified mean-tone temperament (even if it continually pushes at the boundaries of this system).
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In a mean-tone temperament, the fifths are distorted by a certain fraction of the syntonic comma, which Paul described. The result is that in a major 3rd the middle tone is equidistant from the two outer pitches: i.e., it is the "mean" (meaning middle) between those two notes.
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Accepting Students from Beginning to Advanced; All Styles. All Ages. ... 5 Sizes of Guitars for all sizes of Students ... Insist on Live Music...
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1. Introduction 2. General Mathematical Basis 3. The Principle Tuning Systems 3.1 Pythagorean Tuning 3.2 Ptolemaic Tuning: "just intonation" 3.3 Mean-tone Temperament 3.4 Equal Temperament 4. Harmonic Comparison 4.1 Perfect 5ths 4.2 Major 3rds 4.3 Major 6ths 5. Summary of sample sounds...
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lots and lots of stuff about meantone temperaments ... The "t" interval can be called a tone, and "s" a semitone. As these words are ambiguous, though, I'll stick to letters in this page. ... By "melodic definition" I mean the scale is defined in terms of small intervals. Using large, supposedly consonant intervals would be...
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5 TEMPERAMENT; 5.1 Full Circle of Fifths; 5.2 Mean Tone Temperament; 5.3 Cents; 5.4 Some Common Tuning Intervals Measured in Cents; 5.5 Analysis of Mean Tone Temperament; 5.6 The Common Chord and Key Modulation; 5.7 Diatonic Intervals; 5.8 Well Temperament; 5.9 Equal Temperament; 5.10 Numerical Comparison of Tuning Systems...
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MEAN-TONE TEMPERAMENT: The system of tuning employed for most bells from around 1500 to 1900. This temperament permits a closer conformity to the frequency ratios of the intervals found in the natural overtone series but limits the amount of transposition, the sharps not being identical with the flats.
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Increasing use of major and minor scale modes with key modulation precipitated development of Mean Tone Temperament, Well Temperament and Equal Temperament. ... 5.2 Mean Tone Temperament...
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