AW.: Re: Are 19-tet and 31-tet meantone tunings?

Doesn't it make more sense to save "meantone" for the quater comma
temperament where the just third really is divided by a mean?

Although equal temperaments like 19 and 31 share properties with historical
meantone, the method of tuning and the sound of the temperaments are
different enough to beg for a distinction. Several of the Dutch players of
31tet music also play early music in 1/4 comma meantone and the difference
between the two is audible.

A useful classification system is found in Wilson's 1965 _A Classification
of Tonal Systems and a Proposed Standardization of Signatures_ and his 1975
_On Linear Notations and the Bosanquet Keyboard_ . I think sufficient
information is conveyed by grouping 19 and 31 with other duodecimally
negative systems (those with fifths less than 7/12 octave in size). The
shared propoerties with meantone are then also apparent.

To all:
I will try to get up the first of these up from Erv. The latter can be
found at http://www.anaphoria.com/xen3.html Also-

Graham and Kris!

expect some sheets on the Viggo Brun
algorithm mention in connection with MOS soon!

DWolf77309@cs.com wrote:

>
> A useful classification system is found in Wilson's 1965 _A Classification
> of Tonal Systems and a Proposed Standardization of Signatures_ and his 1975
> _On Linear Notations and the Bosanquet Keyboard_ . I think sufficient
> information is conveyed by grouping 19 and 31 with other duodecimally
> negative systems (those with fifths less than 7/12 octave in size). The
> shared propoerties with meantone are then also apparent.
>
>

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