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equal temperament

In music, a type of temperament (tuning of a scale) in which every semitone within an octave is exactly equal.



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nbsp;the body of compositions whose fundamental syntactical reference is a particular ordering (called series or row) of the twelve pitch classes—C, C#, D, D#, E, F, F#, G, G#, A, A#, B—that constitute the equal-tempered scale.
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