Glommish/Musical system: Difference between revisions

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þe térem = string instrument (from Türiŋit täärm)

þe kátérem = guqin (← kaa-täärm 'ancient string instrument')

þe júskion = dulcimer (← jüüskön)

þí klársiach = harp (← cláirseach)

þe kinór = lyre (← cinnowr)

þe fiþel = violin

þe lażefiþel = cello

þe lúg (← luug), þí fiadóg (← feadóg) = (two kinds of) flute

þí szavúrtéreme = broken instruments

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 þe kinór = lyre (← cinnowr)
-þe piengeng (térem) = bowed string instrument (← peŋ-eŋ (bow-COMITATIVE))
+þe fiþel = violin
-þe siópiengeng = violin (← söö-peŋeŋ 'small bowed')
+þe lażefiþel = cello
-þe latspiengeng = cello (← lats-peŋeŋ 'large bowed')
 þe lúg (← luug), þí fiadóg (← feadóg) = (two kinds of) flute
 þí szavúrtéreme = broken instruments
-==Tuning==
-===13th century===
-===15th century===
-===17th century===
-There are three kinds of systems:
-) Two eleven-limit diamonds spaced a perfect fifth apart, or two (1...13)x(1...1/7) diamonds spaced a perfect fifth apart
-) A cross set (1...15)x(1...15)
-) An Euler-Fokker genus 3⁴x5²x7²
-===19th century (popular)===
-===European Theory===
-* Babylonians independently discover pythagorean tuning and Greeks extend it into genera
-* poly-pythagorean chains introduced by Jewish theorists to explain the enharmonic genus
-===Chinese Theory===
-* experiments in pythagorean tuning followed by the discovery of 12- and 53-tone MOS scales
-* higher limit tonalities introduced by throat-singers; subsequent treatises describe otonality as yin (qürm) and utonality as yang (läŋ)
-* musical theater, orchestra, Partchian ideas