Meantone temperaments are musical temperaments, that is a variety of tuning systems, obtained by narrowing the fifths so that their ratio is slightly less...
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Historically, the use of just intonation, Pythagorean tuning and meantone temperament meant that such instruments could sound "in tune" in one key, or...
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Quarter-comma meantone, or 1 / 4 -comma meantone, was the most common meantone temperament in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and was sometimes used...
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a well temperament is required.[citation needed] Pythagorean tuning Just intonation Meantone temperament Regular temperament Equal temperament Duffin...
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meantone temperaments that slightly modified the interval sizes but could still be viewed as an approximate of 12-TEDO. Due to meantone temperaments'...
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In music, septimal meantone temperament, also called standard septimal meantone or simply septimal meantone, refers to the tempering of 7-limit musical...
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cents (Play). 31-ET is a very good approximation of quarter-comma meantone temperament. More generally, it is a regular diatonic tuning in which the tempered...
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that almost purely tunes the 7th harmonic (7:4). Although it is a meantone temperament, it is a very flat one, with four of its perfect fifths producing...
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Wolf interval (section Quarter comma meantone)
used in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: the quarter-comma meantone temperament. More broadly, it is also used to refer to similar intervals (of...
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Semitone (section Meantone temperament)
if and only if twelve-tone equal temperament is used; for example, they are not the same thing in meantone temperament, where the diatonic semitone is...
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