Henrik Ljungstrand
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Hello everyone, i am pretty new to Sagittal, less new to xenharmonic alliance or the regular tuning paradigm. Some musical experience, mostly from church choir and amateur playing, nothing professional. Would say i have a good musical ear and a keen mathematical mind though.

After having noticed that standard Sagittal notation for 13-limit JI uses the symbols , , , and for 81/80, 64/63, 33/32 and 27/26 (down, down, up, down) as standards, and noticing that 33/32 is almost exactly a fourth root of 9/8 and 27/26 is almost exactly a cube root of 9/8, thus being likely to be perceived as a quarter tone and a third tone respectively, i wondered about what temperament we would get by setting 27/26 = 26/25 = 25/24 (thus (27/26)^3 = 9/8) and setting 36/35 = 33/32 and 36/35 * 33/32 = 35/33 (thus (33/32)^4 = 9/8).
The answer is Quadritikleismic temperament, a rank 2 (linear) 13-limit temperament, supported by 72edo, 68edo and 140edo.
Having commas 676/675, 625/624, 385/384 and 9801/9800 tempered to unison, among many others.

I now wonder which accidentals would be best for using in this temperament, besides and ? It should preferrably be a good compromise between 72edo and 68edo, and possibly 140edo.
Are and still good alternatives for 5 and 7 commas, or are there better ones? Should the 11 and 13 commas also be changed perhaps?

The idea is for this temperament to possibly be a good microtemperament for 13-limit music performance, especially real time performance, if there is any interest for such in 13-limit almost JI based on diatonicism plus pretty simple extensions.
Just an idea, i haven't really had the opportunity to train myself very much in any instrument except voice yet, although planning to learn recorder, piano/synth and guitar better, and hopefully be able to retune such instruments to e.g. Quadritikleismic, and other tunings/temperaments.

Dave Keenan
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Hi Henrik. Welcome to the Sagittal forum.

the 5-comma 81/80 as 1/9-tone,
the 7-comma 64/63 as 1/8-tone,
the 11-M-diesis 33/32 as 1/4-tone,
the 13-L-diesis 27/26 as 1/3-tone,
where 1 tone is 9/8.

422ef-ET certainly covers it (having 72 steps to the 9/8) but of course it begs the question: Why not use the best approximations of 33/32 and 27/26 at 19 and 23 steps (rather than the exact 1/4-tone and 1/3-tone at 18 and 24 steps)?

So understandably you'd like a higher-rank temperament that would effectively let you choose a subset of 422ef-ET that still gives say a 13-limit diamond, or some useful number of 13-limit consonances, without too many notes.

I'm not convinced that Quadritikleismic is what you want here. Can you explain in what sense it satisfies your above specification? I see that it satifies the last two criteria (re 11 and 13). But I don't see that it satisfies the first two (re 5 and 7).

POTE generator: 316.989
Map: [ 4 0 4 7 17 0], 0 6 5 4 -3 14] ]
EDOs: 68, 72, 140, 212

But I decided to have a look at a notation for 140-edo anyway.

I assume you've seen the standard Sagittal notations for 68 and 72, e.g. on the Periodic Table.

140edo has the same best fifth as 70edo and has CD=24, EF=10, #=14. The following proposal has valid flag arithmetic. I was forced to use primes 19 and 17 to get symbols for 1 and 2 steps.

140edo
Steps   Symbol  Comma  Other valid symbols and their commas
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1		19-schisma
2		1/17-kleisma
3		1/5-comma		 1/7C	 55C
4		19/5-comma		 19/7C
5		7/11-comma
6		11-medium-diesis	 1/35M, 13M
7		5/49-medium-diesis
8		1/11-large-dieisis	 35L, 1/13L

But that's not a notation for Quadritikleismic and I don't think it really helps you get to one.

herman.miller
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One thing to note if you're wanting to notate quadritikleismic is that (64/63) and (55/54) are equivalent in this temperament: both work out to be [+1, -16>. This is also the case with the combinations (36/35) and (33/32) = [+0, +3>, as well as (729/704) vs. (8505/8192) = [-2, +39>. So you might want to pick one or the other flag in each of these three pairs to make the addition easier to remember. But note that and map to different intervals.

I haven't looked into quadritikleismic, but with a generator of 17 cents, you're going to need a lot of accidentals for the small intervals. Here's some options:

[+0, +1> (17.09): 99/98
[+0, +2> (34.17): 49/48
[+0, +3> (51.26): 36/35 or 33/32
[+0, +4> (68.35): 25/24
[+0, +5> (85.43): 21/20
[+0, +6> (102.52): 35/33 (approx.)

Note that at least with the TOP tuning of 17.086 cent generators with a 300.00 cent period, the schisma accent is not negligible, but it's still a relatively small interval at 5.584 cents. You might be able to leave out the schisma accents if you don't stray too far from your reference pitch.

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