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The classical Etalocian 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. There are broadly two approaches to this tuning, the choice of which is partly dictated by instrumentation: 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 Etalocian music was likely that maintaining it (without collapsing it to e.g. the common pentatonic scale) functioned as a status symbol.

~~Music theory has also motivated mathematical questions throughout Etalocian history.~~

==Periodization==

Here follows a crude periodization of Etalocian classical music:

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 The classical Etalocian 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. There are broadly two approaches to this tuning, the choice of which is partly dictated by instrumentation: 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 Etalocian music was likely that maintaining it (without collapsing it to e.g. the common pentatonic scale) functioned as a status symbol.
-Music theory has also motivated mathematical questions throughout Etalocian history.
 ==Periodization==
 Here follows a crude periodization of Etalocian classical music: