You want how many notes in an octave?? - The Xenharmonic Wiki Deep Dive 

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One thing people should maybe consider with the xen wiki is that unlike wikipedia or most wikis the xen wiki is largely made up of original research and ideas by the people who are developing them or by people sort of compiling information from those people and correcting/touching it up based on their own thoughts/original research. This can cause some trouble at times but xenharmonic theory is still being developed so its basically unavoidable, also this means the contributors and contributions are somewhat limited to the subjects they are interested in and have worked on/done research on, which tends not to be ethnomusicologists or historians or perhaps surprisingly people who study psychoacoustics, most of it is really about scale construction and scale properties. So while you can trust the gist of things said about other cultures tuning systems you should maybe take it with a grain of salt as they arent always based on many studies or first hand knowledge from someone immersed in the culture themselves, but rather likely someone from the west trying to interpret what they are hearing or seeing in a tuner and putting it together to judge what sort of structure theyre aiming for, they dont necessarily know the actual practices, or at least its inconsistent when they do and when they dont (though there are some who know about a specific form of music relevant to the type of music they make and study, its just very case by case), though as they likely judged off listening you can at least be comfortable knowing it should help if you want to sound like that type of music. Maqam is actually covered fairly well elsewhere online, its very different from how im used to approaching music though, the order of notes and when you play them are not as arbitrary and up in the air as with western music where you can just play any note of ionian whenever even entirely randomly, its more like playing aeolian or melodic minor depending on which direction you are going, so whenever a tuning references a maqam it can really be slightly dubious as the tuning alone is not all there is to a maqam.

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you GOTTA read genesis of a music, man, and review it for those of us too lazy to do so xD

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Excellent and thorough!

awesome video, love the style!

Great video!

I find it interesting how you dedicated so much time to the "Why Microtonality?" page; it goes to show how much the amount of work put in some individual pages can completely change the experience of a new visitor on the wiki. It can indeed be difficult for a new visitor to find the beginner-friendly content among the wiki's thousands of pages, and even some pages marked as "for beginners" are barely more beginner-friendly than their "expert" counterpart. 😅

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I think 31-EDO is the most useful of the higher end of divisions, because it gives you an emotional palette that is more nuanced than 12-TET , or even lesser divisions, without being too granular in my opinion. That being said, if you need fractions of a cent to express your emotion, do it, even if we cannot notice it, it'll still be important.

Call me naive (it’s true), but aren’t there really an infinite number of tones available within an octave?

So, the issue is that 12 TET has destroyed western music theorist's ability to actually understand how music works. Consequently, we don't have notation systems that work with microtonal systems, because we don't really have a common understanding of music that expands into the microtonal notation space. We don't know if we need a new notation system for every tuning, or if there is some way to notate music that can independently handle almost any tuning. I believe in the existence of the latter, but I'm far from understanding music well enough to propose a sensible system.

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