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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 ...

...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 ...

...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. ...

...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. Not .../5s form 7/4 (keemic), and three 7/6s form [[8/5]] (orwellismic). {{Adv|In terms of [[S-expression]]s, 22et equates S5, S6, S7, and S9 all to one step, and ...

...o zero, so (g⁴/4 -1) - (g-g⁴/4) = 0. Put in integer terms, it's g⁴ - 2g - 2 = 0. Solving for g, the only root that makes s ...

...cumulation. Furthermore, despite having a more accurate 7/4 than 12edo in terms of absolute error, the 7th harmonic suffers from the same problem, as well ...

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

...s of regions extending outwards from it, which are defined by Leriendil in terms of equal divisions of 15/14. The reasoning for the use of 15/14 is twofold: ...

...r relationship: if k_Ax represents the absolute detuning of A in terms of the portion of its corresponding k, then as x approaches 1, the dependen ...

It is possible to define the intervals of Slendric in terms of diatonic categories, for at three steps is the perfect fifth, and at eve ...

16edo shares its mapping of 5/4, 8/7, and 3/2 in terms of edosteps with [[15edo]] and with the [[Carlos Alpha]] scale. ...

...golden ratio, the generator can then be characterized by an expression in terms of logarithmic phi. By continuing to stack generators that are tuned this w ...

...h utilizes exclusively such intervals. Just intonation can be described in terms of the harmonic series (which is the set of tones at integer multiples of a ...

...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/ ...

...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 ...

...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 ...