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This page lists various terms conventionally used in xenharmony (or in some cases, general music theory a '''Don't put idiosyncratic terms here.''' When using personal terminology in an article, either explain it t ...

The concept of a third may be defined in terms of a heptatonic [[MOS|moment-of-symmetry]] scale, which always has two vari .../5 is somewhat in between that of 5/4 and 9/7, as it is in between them in terms of prime factorization complexity and does not have any repeated prime fact ...

...uishing an unmarked "major" from terms like "supermajor" (and "minor" from terms like "subminor"). There is no obvious reason to do this other than 5-limit ...e be called "classic(al)", "pental", or "ptolemaic" minor/major, which are terms used to describe the simple 5-limit intervals to which they correspond. ...

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...on of the generating structure and non-uniqueness of the basis. In musical terms, every time two sequences of movements by intervals, played as represented ...can be said for example that a large number of commas can be expressed in terms of differences between nearby [[superparticular]] intervals. See [[Mathemat ...

...om 53 in the 7-limit- the [[perfect fourth]] has a little more to offer in terms of divisions. For starters, the perfect fourth can be divided into two ins ...n Classical usage. While the 7th harmonic is technically more accurate in terms of absolute error than in 53edo, the relative error doesn't allow one to st ...

...rpretation merely be an extension of the untempered 2.3.5 one. groundfault terms the tuning of blackdye that makes aberrisma-altered Pyth thirds 13/11 and 1 Terms ...

.... In fact, we will generally write these series, and those that follow, in terms of ''k''. ...'t'', which is why these are called "third-order" commas - the first-order terms cancel out. ...

The concept of a fifth may be defined in terms of a heptatonic [[MOS|moment-of-symmetry]] scale, which always has two vari ...other interval regions, the fifth region can be more precisely defined in terms of the MOSes that fifths generate, between 667 and 750 cents such that all ...

...s is not always transferable with other Harmonic theories using "the same" terms. ...

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...l intervals of 17 are affected by this disparity. It is between the two in terms of size - the minor second is a simpler diatonic interval but it is closer ...

...icant, which sit between the mediant/submediant and supertonic/subtonic in terms of stability (and feature as elements of chthonic chords like 6:7:8, an alt ...

...enerators (such as the 5-limit with meantone) are difficult to consider in terms of any given [[form]]. ...

...a tuning system. A common conceptualization of the set of intervals is in terms of a [[chain of fifths]], and many notation systems designed for [[just int ...

...lternative notation system to ploidacot which notates 3-limit intervals in terms of diatonic scale degrees, created by [[Kite Giedraitis]]. While ploidacot ...

In terms of structures, or ways of organizing harmony, it should first be noted that ...

...he antitonic and antidominant; the 4 functions are generally thought of in terms of stability vs. instability, and stasis vs. progression. In the major scal ...

...might think to use a circle of major thirds, the next simplest interval in terms of JI, but as it turns out, that ALSO doesn't cover all the intervals, repe ...

Taphric, simic, and grammic are all antipentic terms but otherwise do not reflect specific tuning ranges. Subtaphric/suprasimic/ ...