:: : Keep in mind that those who wrote about the " disturbing " nature of the tritone tended to be listening to music in meantone temperament.
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But Huygens'description of this conventional arrangement was quite precise, and is clearly identifiable with what is now classified as ( quarter-comma ) meantone temperament.
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The chromatic scale can be played in Pythagorean tuning, meantone temperament, or 12-tone equal temperament, or indeed many different types of irregular musical temperament.
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It produces a gentle, sparkling tone with very low wind pressure, and like instruments of the 16th and 17th centuries, it is tuned in meantone temperament.
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The best-known example of a linear temperaments is meantone temperament, where the generating intervals are usually given in terms of a slightly flattened fifth and the octave.
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Notice that here the fifth is wider than 700 cents, while in most meantone temperaments, including-comma meantone, it is tempered to a size smaller than 700.
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However, when using correct enharmonic spelling, the wolf fifth in Pythagorean tuning or meantone temperament is actually not a perfect fifth but a diminished sixth ( for instance G E ).
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Another interesting element of " Opinioni " is Tosi s discussions on meantone temperament were becoming antiquated at the time Tosi wrote his treatise, he nevertheless insisted on their use.
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Meantone temperament has had considerable revival for early music performance in the late 20th century and in newly composed works specifically demanding meantone by composers including John Adams, Gy�rgy Ligeti and Douglas Leedy.
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This project will cover historical systems like Pythagorean tuning and meantone temperament, non-Western systems like pelog and slendro, and modern innovations like Harry Partch's 43-tone scale.
