Verse:Hmøøh: Difference between revisions
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====Tuning systems==== | ====Tuning systems==== | ||
Older music uses JI scales (a variety of them; or free JI?) and | *Older music uses 5, 7 or 11 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 "more prototypical" temperament like say 22edo). | |||
*Scúdhainn (~ 200 years BP) defined the concept of linear temperaments and was the first to use some rank-2 temperaments in her musical œuvre. (Matrices were known by then!) | |||
*Constant structures arise from linear temperaments | |||
Folk and popular music prefers "simpler" harmonic series based scales - e.g. 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 or 5-/7-limit diamonds | Folk and popular music prefers "simpler" harmonic series based scales - e.g. 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 or 5-/7-limit diamonds | ||