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*Older music uses 5, 7 limit JI scales (a variety of them; or free JI?)  
*Older music uses 5, 7 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).  
*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 used some rank-2 temperaments for the first time in her musical œuvre. (Matrices were known by then! Also linear temperaments arise naturally from constant structures)
*Scúdhainn (~ 144 years BP) defined the concept of linear temperaments and used some rank-2 temperaments for the first time in her musical œuvre. (Matrices were known by then! Also linear temperaments arise naturally from constant structures)


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