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The classical Talman musical tradition abstractly considers the space of possible musical intervals as approximating the intervals with rational frequency ratios. Prime factors commonly used in intervals, in addition to 3 and 5, also include 7, 11, 13 and higher limits. In modern times, there are broadly two approaches to this tuning, the choice of which is partly dictated by instrumentation and style: just intonation (possibly microtempered) and various equal temperaments.

Just intonation was initially an attractive choice as it was considered easy to tune and evaluate musicians on. Primes higher than 5 may have come from an early tradition of throat singing where having a deep voice and the ability to throat-sing higher harmonics (11-14) clearly was seen as a mark of masculinity. In summary, a major reason that this system of just intervals survived as a mainstay of Talman music was likely that maintaining it (without collapsing it to e.g. the common pentatonic scale) functioned as a status symbol.

===History===

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Just intonation was initially an attractive choice as it was considered easy to tune and evaluate musicians on. Primes higher than 5 may have come from an early tradition of throat singing where having a deep voice and the ability to throat-sing higher harmonics (11-14) clearly was seen as a mark of masculinity. In summary, a major reason that this system of just intervals survived as a mainstay of Talman music was likely that maintaining it (without collapsing it to e.g. the common pentatonic scale) functioned as a status symbol. -->

====Period 1====

Throat-singing, natural horns, monochords lead to knowledge of higher harmonics; mainly overtone scales; mainly monophonic

Tsăhong Tamdi's treatise [[Literature:Elements of Harmony|''Elements of Harmony'']] is published ~> Partchian tonality diamonds

====Period 2====

Johnstonian free JI; many choral, chamber and orchestral works

====Period 3====

(n,k)-anies, Euler-Fokker and other CPS's

====Period 4===

*constant structures; good equal temperaments (19-EDO, 22-EDO, 27-EDO, 31-EDO)

**Askuucis came up with the idea of EDOs; however, EDOs didn't really take off until the isomorphic keyboard was invented.

**"Impressionist" composers also wrote in EDOs.

===Instruments===

Some common Talman instruments are given below with their [[Eevo]] names; they can be divided into continuous-pitch and fixed-pitch instruments.

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 The classical Talman musical tradition abstractly considers the space of possible musical intervals as approximating the intervals with rational frequency ratios. Prime factors commonly used in intervals, in addition to 3 and 5, also include 7, 11, 13 and higher limits. In modern times, there are broadly two approaches to this tuning, the choice of which is partly dictated by instrumentation and style: just intonation (possibly microtempered) and various equal temperaments.
-Just intonation was initially an attractive choice as it was considered easy to tune and evaluate musicians on. Primes higher than 5 may have come from an early tradition of throat singing where having a deep voice and the ability to throat-sing higher harmonics (11-14) clearly was seen as a mark of masculinity. In summary, a major reason that this system of just intervals survived as a mainstay of Talman music was likely that maintaining it (without collapsing it to e.g. the common pentatonic scale) functioned as a status symbol.
+===History===
+<!-- Rewrite
+Just intonation was initially an attractive choice as it was considered easy to tune and evaluate musicians on. Primes higher than 5 may have come from an early tradition of throat singing where having a deep voice and the ability to throat-sing higher harmonics (11-14) clearly was seen as a mark of masculinity. In summary, a major reason that this system of just intervals survived as a mainstay of Talman music was likely that maintaining it (without collapsing it to e.g. the common pentatonic scale) functioned as a status symbol. -->
+====Period 1====
+Throat-singing, natural horns, monochords lead to knowledge of higher harmonics; mainly overtone scales; mainly monophonic
+Tsăhong Tamdi's treatise [[Literature:Elements of Harmony|''Elements of Harmony'']] is published ~> Partchian tonality diamonds
+====Period 2====
+Johnstonian free JI; many choral, chamber and orchestral works
+====Period 3====
+(n,k)-anies, Euler-Fokker and other CPS's
+====Period 4===
+*constant structures; good equal temperaments (19-EDO, 22-EDO, 27-EDO, 31-EDO)
+**Askuucis came up with the idea of EDOs; however, EDOs didn't really take off until the isomorphic keyboard was invented.
+**"Impressionist" composers also wrote in EDOs.
 ===Instruments===
 Some common Talman instruments are given below with their [[Eevo]] names; they can be divided into continuous-pitch and fixed-pitch instruments.