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The rise of the merchant class and the free-market economy marks the beginning of Etalocian modernity.

==Music==

===History===

The Etalocian musical tradition abstractly considers the space of possible musical intervals to be the intervals with rational frequency ratios.

Prime factors commonly used in intervals, in addition to 3 and 5, also include 7, 11, and 13 which are not represented well by 12-tone equal temperament.

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 ability to throat-sing higher harmonics (11-16) was seen as a mark of masculinity. In summary, the reason that this system of just intervals has survived as a mainstay of Etalocian music was probably that maintaining it (without collapsing to e.g. the meantone pentatonic scale) functioned as a status symbol.

===Standardization===

Scientific unit for intervals: 1/1728 of an octave

Standard pitch: 125 Hz; 120 Hz is used as "baroque pitch"

Temperament nomenclature

===Eastern Etalocin===

"Sophisticated" popular musicians borrow heavily from "classical" idioms such as: long, quasi-operatic song forms; use of traditional classical tunings and harmony (sometimes getting very harmonically complex chords); complex rhythms and time signatures inspired by non-Etalocian music.

====Instruments====

*''penicillin'' (Tíogall: ''painicar'') = a wind instrument

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 The rise of the merchant class and the free-market economy marks the beginning of Etalocian modernity.
 ==Music==
+===History===
+The Etalocian musical tradition abstractly considers the space of possible musical intervals to be the intervals with rational frequency ratios. <!--(possibly modulo tempering out commas, intervals considered "negligible" for a particular purpose) -->
+Prime factors commonly used in intervals, in addition to 3 and 5, also include 7, 11, and 13 which are not represented well by 12-tone equal temperament.
+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 ability to throat-sing higher harmonics (11-16) was seen as a mark of masculinity. In summary, the reason that this system of just intervals has survived as a mainstay of Etalocian music was probably that maintaining it (without collapsing to e.g. the meantone pentatonic scale) functioned as a status symbol.
+===Standardization===
 Scientific unit for intervals: 1/1728 of an octave
 Standard pitch: 125 Hz; 120 Hz is used as "baroque pitch"
+Temperament nomenclature
 ===Eastern Etalocin===
 "Sophisticated" popular musicians borrow heavily from "classical" idioms such as: long, quasi-operatic song forms; use of traditional classical tunings and harmony (sometimes getting very harmonically complex chords); complex rhythms and time signatures inspired by non-Etalocian music.
 ====Instruments====
 *''penicillin'' (Tíogall: ''painicar'') = a wind instrument