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The rise of the merchant class and the free-market economy marks the beginning of Etalocian modernity.

==Culture==

===Music===

Scientific unit for intervals: 1/1728 of an octave

===Eastern Etalocin===

"Sophisticated" popular musicians borrow heavily from "classical" idioms such as: long, quasi-operatic song forms; use of traditional classical tunings and harmony (sometimes getting very harmonically complex chords); complex rhythms and time signatures inspired by non-Etalocian music.

====Instruments====

*''penicillin'' (Tíogall: ''painicar'') = a wind instrument

*''ditoren'' (Tíogall: ''ditor'') = a string instrument

(a lot of overlap with Talmic music)

*organs played with an isomorphic keyboard

====Tuning systems====

Some "modern" classical composers experiment with tuning systems such as high-limit (primes 17 or higher) JI, various EDOs and linear temperaments, especially higher-limit meantone.

===Talma===

====Instruments====

*''spúith'' (pl. ''spúithear'') = plucked string instrument with sympathetic strings

*''ŋamas'' (pl. ''ŋamsa'') = "Talman violin": a 5-stringed bowed string instrument used for the treble and alto register

**Tuning: 2:3:5:7:9, lowest string = ~120Hz

*''ŋamsám'' (pl. ''ŋamsáma'') = a ''ŋamas'' that's a 2/1 lower

**Tuning: 2:3:4:5:7:9

*''tsábhíoch'' (txâbhikh) steel guitar tuned to a hexany

*''mifgól'' (pl. ''mifgóla'') = a slide flute

*''jóghám'' (pl. ''jógháma'') = a zither

*''tuaim'' (pl. ''tuaimear'') = a reed instrument

*''fuís'' (pl. ''fuísí'') = a drum

*''seomhoidhre'' (pl. ''seomhoidhrí'') = some multi-row autoharp thing controlled by an isomorphic keyboard (pieces are often written for two or more ''seomhoidhrí'' keyboards that are separated by a tuning offset so that the player has access to different octaves)

*solo voice or choir

Tuning to temperaments is done with reference instruments or monochords

Some seomhoidhre and jóghám tunings:

*1/1 21/20 8/7 6/5 5/4 21/16 10/7 3/2

*1/1 21/20 11/10 8/7 6/5 5/4 21/16 11/8 10/7 3/2 (441/440 tempered out)

*hexanic: 1/1 21/20 35/32 8/7 6/5 5/4 21/16 48/35 10/7 3/2

*major: 1/1 25/24 7/6 6/5 5/4 7/5 35/24 3/2

*minor: 1/1 25/24 15/14 6/5 5/4 9/7 75/56 3/2

*augmented: 1/1 15/14 7/6 5/4 9/7 35/24 3/2

Various chamber ensembles:

*"string trio": 2 ŋ + 1 Ŋ;

*"string quartet": 3 ŋ + 1 Ŋ

====Tuning systems====

Base pitch: ~120 Hz

Classical music:

*Older music uses 5, 7 limit JI scales (a variety of them; or free JI?)

*Culminates in 11 limit JI and temperaments (mostly as approximations to JI; perhaps also a temperament-temperament like say 22edo).

*Scúdhainn defined the concept of linear temperaments and used some rank-2 temperaments for the first time in her musical œuvre. (Matrices were known by then! Also linear temperaments arise naturally from equating similar intervals in constant structures)

*Dekanies, eikosanies and other scales that maximize the number of consonant chords per note

Folk and popular music prefers "simpler" just scales:

*6:7:8:9:10:11:12

*5-/7-odd limit diamonds

*1 3 5 7 hexany

====Musical forms====

*Art song (''foscúghál'') settings of poems, with ''spúith'' or chamber accompaniment ([[Tíogall]]: ''éanril''). Poems may deal with:

**Nature, idyllic settings

**Love

**Mystical themes

**A short dialogue

*Opera

====Notation====

Scale-neutral JI notation:

# Notes are written on a staff similar to our staff but the scale is 8:9:10:11:12:13:14:15:16, not the diatonic scale

# Accidentals indicate various small intervals

# Shift of fundamental: Let (x,t) be a tuple of the form (level on staff, time). When you draw a point (x1, t1) and another point (x2, t2) after that, and connect them with a curved line, then x1 and x2 are "identified" and the fundamental shifts accordingly (from time t2 on).

===Cuisine===

Vegetarian cuisine has been backed by various ethical philosophies that prohibit either killing or inflicting suffering on animals. Some form of vegetarianism is common among Etalocians.

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 The rise of the merchant class and the free-market economy marks the beginning of Etalocian modernity.
 ==Culture==
+===Music===
+Scientific unit for intervals: 1/1728 of an octave
+===Eastern Etalocin===
+"Sophisticated" popular musicians borrow heavily from "classical" idioms such as: long, quasi-operatic song forms; use of traditional classical tunings and harmony (sometimes getting very harmonically complex chords); complex rhythms and time signatures inspired by non-Etalocian music.
+====Instruments====
+*''penicillin'' (Tíogall: ''painicar'') = a wind instrument
+*''ditoren'' (Tíogall: ''ditor'') = a string instrument
+(a lot of overlap with Talmic music)
+*organs played with an isomorphic keyboard
+====Tuning systems====
+Some "modern" classical composers experiment with tuning systems such as high-limit (primes 17 or higher) JI, various EDOs and linear temperaments, especially higher-limit meantone.
+===Talma===
+====Instruments====
+*''spúith'' (pl. ''spúithear'') = plucked string instrument with sympathetic strings
+*''ŋamas'' (pl. ''ŋamsa'') = "Talman violin": a 5-stringed bowed string instrument used for the treble and alto register
+**Tuning: 2:3:5:7:9, lowest string = ~120Hz
+*''ŋamsám'' (pl. ''ŋamsáma'') = a ''ŋamas'' that's a 2/1 lower
+**Tuning: 2:3:4:5:7:9
+*''tsábhíoch'' (txâbhikh) steel guitar tuned to a hexany
+*''mifgól'' (pl. ''mifgóla'') = a slide flute
+*''jóghám'' (pl. ''jógháma'') = a zither
+*''tuaim'' (pl. ''tuaimear'') = a reed instrument
+*''fuís'' (pl. ''fuísí'') = a drum
+*''seomhoidhre'' (pl. ''seomhoidhrí'') = some multi-row autoharp thing controlled by an isomorphic keyboard (pieces are often written for two or more ''seomhoidhrí'' keyboards that are separated by a tuning offset so that the player has access to different octaves)
+*solo voice or choir
+Tuning to temperaments is done with reference instruments or monochords
+Some seomhoidhre and jóghám tunings:
+*1/1 21/20 8/7 6/5 5/4 21/16 10/7 3/2
+*1/1 21/20 11/10 8/7 6/5 5/4 21/16 11/8 10/7 3/2 (441/440 tempered out)
+*hexanic: 1/1 21/20 35/32 8/7 6/5 5/4 21/16 48/35 10/7 3/2
+*major: 1/1 25/24 7/6 6/5 5/4 7/5 35/24 3/2
+*minor: 1/1 25/24 15/14 6/5 5/4 9/7 75/56 3/2
+*augmented: 1/1 15/14 7/6 5/4 9/7 35/24 3/2
+Various chamber ensembles:
+*"string trio": 2 ŋ + 1 Ŋ;
+*"string quartet":  3 ŋ + 1 Ŋ
+====Tuning systems====
+Base pitch: ~120 Hz
+Classical music:
+*Older music uses 5, 7 limit JI scales (a variety of them; or free JI?)
+*Culminates in 11 limit JI and temperaments (mostly as approximations to JI; perhaps also a temperament-temperament like say 22edo).
+*Scúdhainn defined the concept of linear temperaments and used some rank-2 temperaments for the first time in her musical œuvre. (Matrices were known by then! Also linear temperaments arise naturally from equating similar intervals in constant structures)
+*Dekanies, eikosanies and other scales that maximize the number of consonant chords per note
+Folk and popular music prefers "simpler" just scales:
+*6:7:8:9:10:11:12
+*5-/7-odd limit diamonds
+*1 3 5 7 hexany
+====Musical forms====
+*Art song (''foscúghál'') settings of poems, with ''spúith'' or chamber accompaniment ([[Tíogall]]: ''éanril''). Poems may deal with:
+**Nature, idyllic settings
+**Love
+**Mystical themes
+**A short dialogue
+*Opera
+====Notation====
+Scale-neutral JI notation:
+# Notes are written on a staff similar to our staff but the scale is 8:9:10:11:12:13:14:15:16, not the diatonic scale
+# Accidentals indicate various small intervals
+# Shift of fundamental: Let (x,t) be a tuple of the form (level on staff, time). When you draw a point (x1, t1) and another point (x2, t2) after that, and connect them with a curved line, then x1 and x2 are "identified" and the fundamental shifts accordingly (from time t2 on).
 ===Cuisine===
 Vegetarian cuisine has been backed by various ethical philosophies that prohibit either killing or inflicting suffering on animals. Some form of vegetarianism is common among Etalocians.