Overview of terminology differences
This page serves as a summary of the differences in terminology used by different composers. It is not an invitation to add fuel to these debates, rather it is a tool to ease communication.
Accidentals across notation systems
Formal commas
| Accidental | Vector | Ben Johnston | FJS | HEJI | Color | Sagittal | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Symbol | Symbol | Symbol | Phonetic coding | Symbol | Name | Phonetic coding | Symbol | ||
| 81/80 | Raise | 5-sharp | + | /5 | (An up arrow on a natural sign) | gu | g | 5-comma | pai | /| |
| Lower | 5-flat | - | 5 | (A down arrow on a natural sign) | yo | y | pao | \! | ||
| 64/63 | Raise | 7-sharp | (not used in BJ) | /7 | Γ | ru | r | 7-comma | tai | |) |
| Lower | 7-flat | 7 | L | zo | z | tao | !) | |||
General purpose
| Accidental | KISS | Diamond-MOS | Kite's ups and downs | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Symbol | Name | Symbol | Symbol | |||
| MOSchroma | Raise | # | am | & | (Not used in Kite) | |
| Lower | b | at | @ | |||
| Subchroma | Raise | (Not used in KISS) | (Not used in Diamond-MOS) | |||
| Lower | ||||||
| Edostep | Raise | |||||
| Lower | ||||||
Section heading
What counts as a minor third, how do people categorize the things that aren't, and how would they refer to other senses of 'minor third'?
TODO: make this into a table with different people's thoughts
32/27
An interval inflected by formal commas from 32/27
3\12, representing 32/27
3\12, representing an interval inflected by formal commas from 32/27
3\12, in general
Any interval in the vicinity of 3\12
Any interval in the vicinity of 3\12, provided it is mapped as the third degree of a heptatonic scale
Any interval in the vicinity of 3\12, excluding Pythagorean intervals other than 32/27
Any interval in the vicinity of 3\12, provided it is inflected by formal commas from 32/27
Any interval in the vicinity of 3\12, provided it is a tempered version of an interval inflected by formal commas from 32/27
The smaller version of the third degree of a JI-agnostic diatonic scale
The smaller version of the third degree of a JI-agnostic diatonic MOS
The smaller version of the third degree of a ternary (or greater) diatonic scale, even if it is not mapped to something inflected by formal commas from 32/27
The smaller version of the third degree of any heptatonic scale
The smaller version of the third degree of any heptatonic MOS
The larger version of the third degree of antidiatonic, when mapped as 32/27
The larger version of the third degree of antidiatonic, in general
The smaller version of the fourth degree of a decatonic scale
The fourth degree of a dodecatonic scale
The smaller version of the third degree of any scale
