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The Etalocian musical tradition abstractly considers the space of possible musical intervals to be the intervals with rational frequency ratios. Prime factors commonly used in intervals, in addition to 3 and 5, also include 7, 11, and 13 which are not represented well by 12-tone equal temperament.

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 ability to throat-sing higher harmonics (11-16) clearly was seen as a mark of masculinity. In summary, the reason that this system of just intervals survived as a mainstay of Etalocian music was likely that maintaining it (without collapsing to e.g. the meantone pentatonic scale) functioned as a status symbol.

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, the reason that this system of just intervals survived as a mainstay of Etalocian music was likely that maintaining it (without collapsing to e.g. the meantone pentatonic scale) functioned as a status symbol.

===Standardization===

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 The Etalocian musical tradition abstractly considers the space of possible musical intervals to be the intervals with rational frequency ratios. <!--(possibly modulo tempering out commas, intervals considered "negligible" for a particular purpose) -->Prime factors commonly used in intervals, in addition to 3 and 5, also include 7, 11, and 13 which are not represented well by 12-tone equal temperament.
-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 ability to throat-sing higher harmonics (11-16) clearly was seen as a mark of masculinity. In summary, the reason that this system of just intervals survived as a mainstay of Etalocian music was likely that maintaining it (without collapsing to e.g. the meantone pentatonic scale) functioned as a status symbol.
+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, the reason that this system of just intervals survived as a mainstay of Etalocian music was likely that maintaining it (without collapsing to e.g. the meantone pentatonic scale) functioned as a status symbol.
 ===Standardization===