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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.

~~==Periodization==~~

~~Here follows a crude periodization of Etalocian classical music:~~

*Throat-singing, natural horns, monochords lead to knowledge of higher harmonics; mainly overtone scales; mainly monophonic

*"Classical" period: Tsăhong Tamdi's treatise [[Literature:Elements of Harmony|''Elements of Harmony'']] is published ~> tonality diamonds, Partchian scales

*Etsoj Jopah (n,k)-anies, Euler-Fokker and other CPS's; development in non-tuning aspects of music such as forms and texture; emergence of opera; more instrumental; instruments start to assume modern form. Modulations start to become more common. Music mostly sounds "sweet" up to this time.

*Descending down to scales and modulations motivates temperaments

*"Romantic"/Temperament period: freer use of expressive "dissonant" harmony; expansion in available timbres, longer music and larger orchestras

**Think Ben Johnston's String Quartet 6

*Temperament period: constant structures and equal temperaments; more emphasis on counterpoint then in previous eras; chamber music and sewvore favored. Some see this as a step to democratizing music.

**Fugues/canons in weird temperaments is Etalocin's serialism analogue

**Partchian corporeality from Tizian music

==Standardization==

The Trician scientific unit for musical intervals is the ''vri'', which is defined as the interval given by the frequency ratio exp(1/1728):1 ≈ 1.00187155617 [[w:cent (music)|cents]]. So it's in practice very similar in size to cents.

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 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.
-==Periodization==
-Here follows a crude periodization of Etalocian classical music:
-*Throat-singing, natural horns, monochords lead to knowledge of higher harmonics; mainly overtone scales; mainly monophonic
-*"Classical" period: Tsăhong Tamdi's treatise [[Literature:Elements of Harmony|''Elements of Harmony'']] is published ~> tonality diamonds, Partchian scales
-*Etsoj Jopah (n,k)-anies, Euler-Fokker and other CPS's; development in non-tuning aspects of music such as forms and texture; emergence of opera; more instrumental; instruments start to assume modern form. Modulations start to become more common. Music mostly sounds "sweet" up to this time.
-*Descending down to scales and modulations motivates temperaments
-*"Romantic"/Temperament period: freer use of expressive "dissonant" harmony; expansion in available timbres, longer music and larger orchestras
-**Think Ben Johnston's String Quartet 6
-*Temperament period: constant structures and equal temperaments; more emphasis on counterpoint then in previous eras; chamber music and sewvore favored. Some see this as a step to democratizing music.
-**Fugues/canons in weird temperaments is Etalocin's serialism analogue
-**Partchian corporeality from Tizian music
 ==Standardization==
 The Trician scientific unit for musical intervals is the ''vri'', which is defined as the interval given by the frequency ratio exp(1/1728):1 ≈ 1.00187155617 [[w:cent (music)|cents]]. So it's in practice very similar in size to cents.