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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 (~ | *Scúdhainn (~ 150 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 | ||