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Well temperament (also good temperament, circular or circulating temperament) is a type of tempered tuning described in 20th-century music theory. The term is modeled on the German word wohltemperiert. This word also appears in the title of J. S. Bach's famous composition "Das wohltemperierte Klavier", The Well-Tempered Clavier.

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Well temperament

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Well temperament (also good temperament, circular or circulating temperament) is a type of tempered tuning described in 20th-century music theory. The...

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Musical temperament

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In musical tuning, a temperament is a tuning system that slightly compromises the pure intervals of just intonation to meet other requirements. Most modern...

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Temperament

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In psychology, temperament broadly refers to consistent individual differences in behavior that are biologically based and are relatively independent...

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Semitone

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if and only if twelve-tone equal temperament is used; for example, they are not the same thing in meantone temperament, where the diatonic semitone is...

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Meantone temperament

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Meantone temperaments are musical temperaments, that is a variety of tuning systems, obtained by narrowing the fifths so that their ratio is slightly...

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12 equal temperament

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12 equal temperament (12-ET) is the musical system that divides the octave into 12 parts, all of which are equally tempered (equally spaced) on a logarithmic...

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Musical tuning

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this, well temperaments have no wolf intervals. Equal temperament The standard twelve-tone equal temperament is a special case of meantone temperament (extended...

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Equal temperament

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An equal temperament is a musical temperament or tuning system that approximates just intervals by dividing an octave (or other interval) into steps such...

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Four temperaments

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The four temperament theory is a proto-psychological theory which suggests that there are four fundamental personality types: sanguine, choleric, melancholic...

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Just intonation

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from equal temperaments and the "tempered" tunings of the early renaissance and baroque, such as Well temperament, or Meantone temperament. Since 5-limit...

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Diatonic scale

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possibly by a combination of fifths and thirds of various sizes, as in well temperament. If the scale is produced by the iteration of six perfect fifths, for...

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Circle of fifths

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using the standard system of tuning for Western music (12-tone equal temperament), the sequence is: C, G, D, A, E, B, F♯ (G♭), C♯ (D♭), G♯ (A♭), D♯ (E♭)...

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Kirnberger temperament

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one of Bach's principal proponents. Kirnberger's tuning systems, or well temperaments are a way to artificially splice together two arcs on the "natural"...

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Piano tuning

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The development of well temperament allowed fixed-pitch instruments to play reasonably well in all of the keys. The famous "Well-Tempered Clavier" by...

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Music and mathematics

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either the irregularities of well temperament or be constructed as a regular temperament, either some form of equal temperament or some other regular meantone...

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Wolf interval

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the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: the quarter-comma meantone temperament. More broadly, it is also used to refer to similar intervals (of close...

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Temperament and Character Inventory

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The Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI) is an inventory for personality traits devised by Cloninger et al. It is closely related to and an outgrowth...

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Perfect fourth

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as different systems of tuning, such as meantone temperament, well temperament, and equal temperament were developed. In early western polyphony, these...

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Robert Holford Macdowall Bosanquet

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22 equal temperament. He also invented a sensitive polariscope working independent of direction. Well Temperament versus Equal Temperament: Marpurg is...

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Andreas Werckmeister

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as well temperament (in which all keys are playable, as in J. S. Bach's later work The Well-Tempered Clavier) now known as Werckmeister temperament. The...

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Schismatic temperament

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a unison. It is also called the schismic temperament, Helmholtz temperament, or quasi-Pythagorean temperament. In Pythagorean tuning all notes are tuned...

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Werckmeister temperament

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Werckmeister temperaments are the tuning systems described by Andreas Werckmeister in his writings. The tuning systems are numbered in two different ways:...

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Bach Temperament

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A Bach Temperament refers to the way the composer Johann Sebastian Bach tuned his harpsichords and clavichords for the interpretation, among other pieces...

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Pythagorean tuning

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interval, this led to the widespread use of well temperaments and eventually equal temperament. Pythagorean temperament can still be heard in some parts of modern...

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31 equal temperament

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In music, 31 equal temperament, 31-ET, which can also be abbreviated 31-TET (31 tone ET) or 31-EDO (equal division of the octave), also known as tricesimoprimal...

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Big Five personality traits

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dimensions used in common language to describe the human personality, temperament, and psyche. Those labels for the five factors may be remembered using...

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72 equal temperament

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In music, 72 equal temperament, called twelfth-tone, 72-TET, 72-EDO, or 72-ET, is the tempered scale derived by dividing the octave into twelfth-tones...

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