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meantone

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
mean-tone
IPA
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A musical temperament that generates all non-octave intervals from a stack of identical perfect fifths all tuned flat from their just ratio of 3/2. When the amount of flattening makes the major and minor thirds appropriate sizes, the syntonic comma is tempered out to a unison.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From mean + tone.

Usage

Inflected Forms

meantones (plural)

Questions

What does meantone mean?
A musical temperament that generates all non-octave intervals from a stack of identical perfect fifths all tuned flat from their just ratio of 3/2. When the amount of flattening makes the major and minor thirds appropriate sizes, the syntonic comma is tempered out to a unison.
Where does meantone come from?
From mean + tone.

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