meantone

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meantone (countable and uncountable, plural meantones)

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(music) A musical temperament that generates all non-octave intervals from a stack of tempered perfect fifths and, by choosing an appropriate size for major and minor thirds, tempers the syntonic comma to unison.

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All meantone temperaments fall on the syntonic temperament 's tuning continuum, citation and as such are "syntonic tunings". Source: Internet

Among these four well-known variants of the diatonic scale, the diatonic scale itself has additional properties of what has been called simplicity, because it is produced by iterations of a single generator, the meantone fifth. Source: Internet

As a consequence, meantone was not suitable for all music. Source: Internet

But Huygens' description of this conventional arrangement was quite precise, and is clearly identifiable with what is now classified as (quarter-comma) meantone temperament. Source: Internet

His tuning system, (a meantone system derived from pi ), is described in his pamphlet A Description Concerning Such Mechanism. Source: Internet

However, meantone presented its own harmonic challenges. Source: Internet

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