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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. Just intonation may also have been reinforced by mathematical considerations of divisibility of integers.

====Periodization====

Here follows a crude periodization of Etalocian classical music:

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

*Classical period: Tsáhóng Tamdí's treatise ''Elements of Harmony'' is published.

*Medieval:

*Early modern period:

*"Romantic" period:

*Temperament period: More "Baroque" in its approach to counterpoint; however, the tunings used is MOSes and MODMOSes in various non-meantone temperaments

*Modern period:

====CW-topia====

===Standardization===

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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. Just intonation may also have been reinforced by mathematical considerations of divisibility of integers.
+====Periodization====
+Here follows a crude periodization of Etalocian classical music:
+*Early period: Throat-singing, natural horns, monochords lead to knowledge of higher harmonics; mainly overtone scales
+*Classical period: Tsáhóng Tamdí's treatise ''Elements of Harmony'' is published.
+*Medieval:
+*Early modern period:
+*"Romantic" period:
+*Temperament period: More "Baroque" in its approach to counterpoint; however, the tunings used is MOSes and MODMOSes in various non-meantone temperaments
+*Modern period:
+====CW-topia====
 ===Standardization===