meantone (English, noun)
expansion: meantone (countable and uncountable, plural meantones)
Senses:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: 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.
tags: countable
uncountable
Forms:
form: meantones
tags: plural