An exploration of meantone temperament in a neo-Renaissance style, highlighting the beauty of near-just consonances brought into focus by 50EDO, very close to Zarlino's 2/7 comma meantone. Fifths are compromised just enough to provide a shimmering base under rich harmonies.
50EDO, full gamut available on keyboard. Scala file would not fit in dialog box so here are cent values: 0, 24, 48, 72, 96, 120, 144, 168, 192, 216, 240, 264, 288, 312, 336, 360, 384, 408, 432, 456, 480, 504, 528, 552, 576, 600, 624, 648, 672, 696, 720, 744, 768, 792, 816, 840, 864, 888, 912, 936, 960, 984, 1008, 1032, 1056, 1080, 1104, 1128, 1152, 1176, 1200 cents
Cam Taylor is a New Zealand musician and theorist now living in Kobe, Japan. He focuses on larger fifth-based tunings include higher limit extended meantones, schismatic/Garibaldi, and circulating JI sets including detemperings of EDOs.