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unusual facts about equal temperament



Dynamic tonality

For example, one could learn to play Rodgers and Hammerstein's Do-Re-Mi in its original 12-tone equal temperament (12-tet) and then play it with exactly the same finger-movements, on exactly the same note-controlling buttons, while smoothly changing the tuning in real time across the syntonic temperament's tuning continuum.

Orwell comma

It is so named because the temperament eliminating this comma, Orwell temperament, has an optimal generator very close to 19 steps out of 84-equal temperament; this pattern of 19/84 steps is similar to the title of Orwell's novel 1984.

Twelve Microtonal Etudes for Electronic Music Media

Twelve Microtonal Etudes for Electronic Music Media is the name of a set of pieces in various microtonal equal temperaments composed and released on LP in 1980 by American composer Easley Blackwood, Jr..


see also

22 equal temperament

Contemporary advocates of 22 equal temperament include music theorist Paul Erlich.

31 equal temperament

In 1666, Lemme Rossi first proposed an equal temperament of this order.