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Meantone temperament: History, Extended meantones & Definition

Meantone temperament is a musical tuning system. In meantone temperament the size of perfect fifths is reduced in order to improve the intonation of thirds. The system derives its name from the geometric mean used to split the major third into two equal tones. The technique includes a wide variety of tuning solutions. Meantone temperament was in use as…

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Meantone temperament topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Extended meantones and Definition as prominent areas in the source structure around Meantone temperament.

Related topics
75
Source areas
8
Connected nodes
83
Extracted relationships
18
Related term clusters
32
Bridge connections
83

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Extended meantones · 23 topics
History · 20 topics
Definition · 9 topics
Method · 8 topics
Meantone temperaments · 5 topics
Overview · 5 topics
Notable meantone temperaments · 3 topics
The tone as a mean · 2 topics

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Meantone temperament
3Perfect fifths · Syntonic comma · Pythagorean comma
3Perfect fifth · Just intonation · Pythagorean tuning
3Geometric mean · Major third · Major second
6Harpsichord · Organ (music) · E major

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Overview

Definition

History

Method

Notable meantone temperaments

The tone as a mean

Meantone temperaments

Extended meantones

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How Meantone temperament connects Entity context

The extracted context around Meantone temperament shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Meantone temperament → American, Easley Blackwood, Historically, Meantone, Pythagorean Another extracted example is Meantone temperament → Meantone, Musical, Pythagorean, Unlike. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Meantone temperament

Top relations

related to Meantone temperaments · 5
Meantone temperament → American, Easley Blackwood, Historically, Meantone, Pythagorean
related to Definition · 4
Meantone temperament → Meantone, Musical, Pythagorean, Unlike
related to Notable meantone temperaments · 3
Meantone temperament → Four, Pythagorean, Quarter-comma
is a · 2
Meantone temperament → musical tuning system, regular temperament
related to The tone as a mean · 1
Meantone temperament → One

Important terminology

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Important terminology

meantone fifths temperament tuning octave ratio just major comma tempered pythagorean system syntonic equal perfect one third intervals tone quarter-comma

Meantone temperament relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 18 structured relationships around Meantone temperament. Examples in this analysis include Meantone temperament → is a → musical tuning system and Meantone temperament → is a → regular temperament. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Meantone temperamentis amusical tuning system0.90text
Meantone temperamentis aregular temperament0.90text
the violin familyinstance ofunfretted strings0.80text
fretless guitarsinstance ofunfretted strings0.80text
and lutes which have movable fretsinstance ofunfretted strings0.80text
Meantone temperamentrelated to DefinitionMusical0.60section
Meantone temperamentrelated to DefinitionMeantone0.60section
Meantone temperamentrelated to DefinitionUnlike0.60section
Meantone temperamentrelated to DefinitionPythagorean0.60section
Meantone temperamentrelated to Meantone temperamentsPythagorean0.60section
Meantone temperamentrelated to Meantone temperamentsHistorically0.60section
Meantone temperamentrelated to Meantone temperamentsMeantone0.60section

Related concept clusters Related term clusters

The concept neighborhoods around Meantone temperament bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Temperament, Tuning and Quarter-comma. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Meantone temperament
    • Temperament
    • Tuning
    • Quarter-comma
    • Fifths
    • Comma
    • Tone
    • Equal
    • Syntonic
    • Whole
    • Octave
    • Perfect
    • Pythagorean
  • meantone temperament
    • Temperament
    • Tuning
    • Equal
    • Quarter-comma
    • Fifths
    • Comma
    • Tone
    • Syntonic
    • Whole
    • Octave
    • Perfect
    • Pythagorean
  • musical tuning system
    • Third
    • Fifths
    • Syntonic
    • Mean
    • Comma
    • Two
    • Octave
    • Quarter-comma
    • Fifth
    • Tone
    • Tempered
    • Major
  • temperament
    • Equal
    • Whole
    • Tone
    • Fifths
    • Tuning
    • Syntonic
    • Music
    • Intonation
    • Use
    • Used
    • Quarter-comma
    • Perfect
  • perfect fifths
    • Syntonic
    • Comma
    • Perfect
    • Pythagorean
    • Tempered
    • Ratio
    • Meantone
    • One
    • Just
    • Slightly
    • Third
    • Tuning
  • major third
    • Third
    • Whole
    • Just
    • Tone
    • Two
    • Ratio
    • Comma
    • Mean
    • Syntonic
    • Equal
    • One
    • Pythagorean
  • intervals
    • Number
    • Pythagorean
    • Intonation
    • Slightly
    • Tuning
    • Notes
    • Octave
    • Perfect
    • Just
    • Syntonic
    • Keys
    • Mean
  • fifths
    • Perfect
    • Pythagorean
    • Syntonic
    • Comma
    • Tempered
    • Meantone
    • Ratio
    • Just
    • Slightly
    • Tuning
    • Major
    • Third

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Meantone temperament, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Meantone temperament with Extended meantones. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

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Meantone temperament — Extended meantones · splits 60 ⟂ 24
Meantone temperament — History · splits 63 ⟂ 21
Meantone temperament — Definition · splits 74 ⟂ 10
Meantone temperament — Method · splits 75 ⟂ 9
Meantone temperament — Overview · splits 78 ⟂ 6
Meantone temperament — Meantone temperaments · splits 78 ⟂ 6
Meantone temperament — Notable meantone temperaments · splits 80 ⟂ 4
Meantone temperament — The tone as a mean · splits 81 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

Meantone temperament

Nodes84
Edges83
Triples18
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.02381
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Meantone temperament to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Extended meantones & Definition, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Meantone temperament · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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