Meantone temperament is a musical tuning system. In meantone temperament the size of perfect fifths is reduced in order to improve the intonation of thirds. The system derives its name from the geometric mean used to split the major third into two...
A wolf interval is audibly out of tune within a particular musical tuning system. A common example is the abnormally small fifth that results from the Pythagorean comma.
In music, septimal meantone temperament, also called standard septimal meantone or simply septimal meantone, refers to the tempering of 7-limit musical intervals by a meantone temperament tuning in the range from fifths flattened by the amount of...
In Western music theory, a semitone (also called a half step or half tone) is one of the two parts into which a whole tone is divided. Semitones are the smallest intervals commonly harmonically and melodically used in Western music, and are among...
In music, 31 equal temperament, 31 ET, which can also be abbreviated 31 TET (31 tone ET) or 31 EDO (equal division of the octave), also known as tricesimoprimal, is the tempered scale derived by dividing the octave into 31 equally-proportioned...
A musical temperament is a tuning system that slightly compromises the pure intervals of just intonation to meet other requirements. These pure intervals are based on a perfect fifth that has an exact 3:2 pitch ratio, but tempering narrows or widens...
The following is a list of intervals of extended meantone temperament. These intervals constitute the standard vocabulary of intervals for the Western common practice era. Here 12 EDO refers to the size of the interval in the temperament with 12...
In music theory, a diatonic scale is a heptatonic (seven-note) scale that includes five whole steps (whole tones) and two half steps (semitones) in each octave, in which the two half steps are separated from each other by either two or three whole...
In Western music theory, a well temperament (also good temperament, circular or circulating temperament) is a type of tempered tuning used for keyboard instruments of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The term is modeled on the German word...
In music, a ditone (Latin: ditonus, from Ancient Greek: δίτονος, "of two tones") is the interval of a major third. The size of a ditone varies according to the sizes of the two tones of which it is compounded. The largest is the Pythagorean ditone,...
