Chords of 53 Equal Temperament
Standard musical notation can be used to denote 53 equal temperament; however, since it is a Pythagorean system, with nearly pure fifths, major and minor triads cannot be spelled in the same manner as in a meantone tuning. Instead, the major triads are chords like C-F♭-G, where the major third is a diminished fourth; this is the defining characteristic of schismatic temperament. Likewise, the minor triads are chords like C-D♯-G. In 53-ET the dominant seventh chord would be spelled C-F♭-G-B♭, but the otonal tetrad is C-F♭-G-C, and C-F♭-G-A♯ is still another seventh chord. The utonal tetrad, the inversion of the otonal tetrad, is spelled C-D♯-G-G.
Further septimal chords are the diminished triad, having the two forms C-D♯-G♭ and C-F-G♭, the subminor triad, C-F-G, the supermajor triad C-D-G, and corresponding tetrads C-F-G-B and C-D-G-A♯. Since 53-ET tempers out the septimal kleisma, the septimal kleisma augmented triad C-F♭-B in its various inversions is also a chord of the system. So is the orwell tetrad, C-F♭-D-G in its various inversions.
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