Mabilic

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Mabilic is a rank-2 regular temperament based around the antidiatonic scale structure. 5/2 is split into three generators which are somewhat sharper than a fourth (~520-530 cents), five of which stack (octave-reduced) to make 8/7. Mabilic in its basic form is a 2.5.7 subgroup temperament, because 3 cannot be added without a high complexity or a significant loss of accuracy.

Extensions of Mabilic include

  • Trismegistus (best tuned around 527 cents) which finds 3/2 at 15 generators up, equating it to both three 8/7s (Slendric temperament) and five 5/4s (Magic temperament).
    • Mnemonic: tris- is Greek for "thrice"; three 8/7's are equated to 3/2; -megistus refers to the Magic mapping of 2.3.5
  • Semabila (best tuned around 530 cents) which finds 4/3 at 10 generators up, equating it to two 8/7s (Semaphore temperament).
  • Mavila (best tuned around 522-528 cents), an exotemperament which sets the generator itself equal to 4/3, and somewhat functions as an opposite to Meantone.

In Meantone, 4 fifths make a 5/4; in Mavila they make a 6/5.

In any tuning, the sharp generator may be identified wth 28/19. This produces an accurate 2.5.7.19 temperament, and justifies the generator as an imperfect fifth of 95/64 created by stacking 5/4 and 19/16.

Intervals

Generators Tuning (Trismegistus/Mavila) Tuning (Semabila) Interpretation (2.5.7) Interpretation (Trismegistus) Interpretation (Mavila) Interpretation (Semabila)
-15 495 450 4/3 21/16
-14 1022 980
-13 349 310 6/5
-12 876 840 5/3
-11 203 170
-10 730 700 32/21 3/2
-9 57 30 21/20
-8 584 560 7/5
-7 1111 1090 40/21 28/15 15/8
-6 438 420 32/25 21/16
-5 965 950 7/4 12/7
-4 292 280 6/5
-3 819 810 8/5 14/9
-2 146 140 35/32 16/15, 9/8 15/14
-1 673 670 3/2
0 0 0 1/1
1 527 530 4/3
2 1054 1060 64/35 16/9, 15/8 28/15
3 381 390 5/4 9/7
4 908 920 5/3
5 235 250 8/7 7/6
6 762 780 25/16 32/21
7 89 110 21/20 15/14 16/15
8 616 640 10/7
9 1143 1170 40/21
10 470 500 21/16 4/3
11 997 1030
12 324 360 6/5
13 851 890 5/3
14 178 220
15 705 750 3/2 32/21



ViewTalkEditRegular temperaments
Rank-2
Acot Blackwood (1/5-octave) • Whitewood (1/7-octave) • Compton (1/12-octave)
Monocot MeantoneSchismicGentle-fifth temperamentsArchy
Complexity 2 Diaschismic (diploid monocot) • Pajara (diploid monocot) • Injera (diploid monocot) • Rastmatic (dicot) • Mohajira (dicot) • Intertridecimal (dicot) • Interseptimal (alpha-dicot)
Complexity 3 Augmented (triploid) • Misty (triploid) • Slendric (tricot) • Porcupine (omega-tricot)
Complexity 4 Diminished (tetraploid) • Tetracot (tetracot) • Buzzard (alpha-tetracot) • Squares (beta-tetracot) • Negri (omega-tetracot)
Complexity 5-6 Magic (alpha-pentacot) • Amity (gamma-pentacot) • Kleismic (alpha-hexacot) • Miracle (hexacot)
Higher complexity Orwell (alpha-heptacot) • Sensi (beta-heptacot) • Octacot (octacot) • Wurschmidt (beta-octacot) • Valentine (enneacot) • Ammonite (epsilon-enneacot) • Myna (beta-decacot) • Ennealimmal (enneaploid dicot)
Straddle-3 A-Team (alter-tricot) • Machine (alter-monocot)
No-3 Trismegistus (alpha-triseph) • Orgone (trimech) • Didacus (diseph)
No-octaves Sensamagic (monogem)
Exotemperament DicotMavilaFather
Higher-rank
Rank-3 HemifamityMarvelParapyth