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==Music==

===History===

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.

The 'high' 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 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 common pentatonic scale) functioned as a status symbol.

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 ==Music==
 ===History===
-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.
+The 'high' 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 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 common pentatonic scale) functioned as a status symbol.