• In psychology, temperament broadly refers to consistent individual differences in behavior that are biologically based and are relatively independent...
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    The four temperament theory is a proto-psychological theory which suggests that there are four fundamental personality types: sanguine, choleric, melancholic...
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    An equal temperament is a musical temperament or tuning system that approximates just intervals by dividing an octave (or other interval) into steps such...
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    In musical tuning, a temperament is a tuning system that slightly compromises the pure intervals of just intonation to meet other requirements. Most modern...
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  • The Keirsey Temperament Sorter (KTS) is a self-assessed personality questionnaire. It was first introduced in the book Please Understand Me. The KTS is...
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    Hyperthymic temperament, or hyperthymia, from Ancient Greek ὑπέρ ("over", meaning here excessive) + θυμός ("spirited"), is a proposed personality type...
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  • Well temperament (also good temperament, circular or circulating temperament) is a type of tempered tuning described in 20th-century music theory. The...
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    Meantone temperaments are musical temperaments, that is a variety of tuning systems, obtained by narrowing the fifths so that their ratio is slightly...
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  • 12 equal temperament (12-ET) is the musical system that divides the octave into 12 parts, all of which are equally tempered (equally spaced) on a logarithmic...
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  • psychological factor analysis measurement of personality, behavior and temperament. It most often consists of a matrix measuring the factor of introversion...
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  • The Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI) is an inventory for personality traits devised by Cloninger et al. It is closely related to and an outgrowth...
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  • The Kirnberger temperaments are three irregular temperaments developed in the second half of the 18th century by Johann Kirnberger. Kirnberger was a student...
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    the same size (TTTS or a permutation of that) which makes it a Linear temperament with the tempered fifth as a generator. For the ordinary diatonic scales...
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  • The circulating temperament today referred to as Vallotti temperament (or simply Vallotti, Vallotti-Barca, Vallotti-Tartini, or Vallotti-Young) is a shifted...
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    using the standard system of tuning for Western music (12-tone equal temperament), the sequence is: C, G, D, A, E, B, F♯ (G♭), C♯ (D♭), G♯ (A♭), D♯ (E♭)...
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    proportions." Alternatively, it can be described as the tuning of the syntonic temperament in which the generator is the ratio 3:2 (i.e., the untempered perfect...
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    evidenced proposal of the equally-tempered quarter tone scale, or 24 equal temperament, was made by 19th-century music theorists Heinrich Richter in 1823 and...
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  • producing 36 pitches per octave. Septimal sixth tone 36 equal temperament 72 equal temperament Septimal diesis Gann, Kyle (September 16, 2019). The Arithmetic...
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    if and only if twelve-tone equal temperament is used; for example, they are not the same thing in meantone temperament, where the diatonic semitone is...
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  • a unison. It is also called the schismic temperament, Helmholtz temperament, or quasi-Pythagorean temperament. In Pythagorean tuning all notes are tuned...
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  • Taylor–Johnson Temperament Analysis (T-JTA) is a personality test designed to measure nine common personality traits for the assessment of individual...
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    In music, 31 equal temperament, 31-ET, which can also be abbreviated 31-TET (31 tone ET) or 31-EDO (equal division of the octave), also known as tricesimoprimal...
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    peaceful in temperament and neither men nor women made war. "Among the Mundugumor, the opposite was true: both men and women were warlike in temperament. "And...
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  • help. The phrase temperament ordinaire (French tempérament ordinaire, meaning literally "ordinary temperament" or "usual temperament") is a term for musical...
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  • Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament is a book by the American psychologist Kay Redfield Jamison examining the relationship...
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  • Young's first temperament C major chord in Young's first temperament Problems playing this file? See media help. "Young temperament" may refer to either...
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  • A Bach Temperament refers to the way the composer Johann Sebastian Bach tuned his harpsichords and clavichords for the interpretation, among other pieces...
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  • Temperament tests assess dogs for certain behaviors or suitability for dog sports or adoption from an animal shelter by observing the animal for unwanted...
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  • A Girl with Temperament (German: Ein Mädel mit Temperament) is a 1928 German silent comedy film directed by Victor Janson and starring Maria Paudler, Eugen...
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    acoustician, musicologist, and composer best known for his work Tuning and Temperament: A Historical Survey (1951, 2d ed. 1953). As the opening of the work...
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