Xenharmonic Reference talk:Guidelines
What to use for the cutoff for referring to just intervals by name?
I've identified a few categories of just intervals, and my takes on each of them:
- Names by prime limit ("septimal major third", "classical minor sixth", "septimal minor semitone") - avoid
- Names of Pythagorean intervals ("Pythagorean major third") - use, but preferably "diatonic" when discussing temperaments
- Any name of an interval with an absurdly complex ratio ("mabilisma", "Pythagorean wolf fifth") - use
- Any name of an interval that's treated as a comma - use
- Names by commatic alteration ("diptolemaic chromatic semitone", "Alpharabian artoneutral third") - ????
- Names of just intervals that specify that they are "chromatic" or "diatonic" semitones beyond the 5-limit, or use the enharmonic interval categories in their names ("large undecimal diminished octave") - ????
What are your thoughts on each of my takes here, and what other categories would you include?
