Compared To Microtonality
While microtonal music usually involves a single fixed tuning that is something other than 12-tone equal temperament (12-tet), dynamic tuning involves a real-time change among two or more tunings of which one may be 12-tet. Further, Wikipedia's entry for microtonal music states that "the following systems are not microtonal: a diatonic scale in any meantone tuning...", whereas the syntonic temperament's tonally-valid tuning range includes all of the meantone tunings, facilitating the use of the diatonic scale (or any other) therein through its consistent fingering on an isomorphic keyboard.
Tuning invariance facilitates the exploration of static microtonal tunings, while dynamic tuning incorporates microtonality's static tunings into tuning continua along which tuning can be changed dynamically in real time.
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