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2. Comma (music) - Wikipedia

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   Syntonic comma on C Pythagorean comma on C . In music theory, a comma is a very small interval, the difference resulting from tuning one note two different ways. [1] Traditionally, there are two most common comma; the syntonic comma, "the difference between a just major 3rd and four just perfect 5ths less two octaves", and the Pythagorean comma, "the difference between twelve 5ths and seven ...

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4. Pythagorean comma - Wikipedia

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   The comma that musical temperaments often "temper" is the Pythagorean comma. [ 3 ] The Pythagorean comma can be also defined as the difference between a Pythagorean apotome and a Pythagorean limma [ 4 ] (i.e., between a chromatic and a diatonic semitone , as determined in Pythagorean tuning); the difference between 12 just perfect fifths and ...

5. Quarter-comma meantone - Wikipedia

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   The actual notes in a fully implemented quarter-comma scale (requiring about 31 keys per octave instead of only 12) would be consonant, like all of the uncolored intervals: The dissonance is the consequence of replacing the correct quarter-comma notes with wrong notes that happen to be assigned to the same key on the 12 tone keyboard. As ...

6. List of pitch intervals - Wikipedia

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   Comparison between tunings: Pythagorean, equal-tempered, quarter-comma meantone, and others.For each, the common origin is arbitrarily chosen as C. The degrees are arranged in the order or the cycle of fifths; as in each of these tunings except just intonation all fifths are of the same size, the tunings appear as straight lines, the slope indicating the relative tempering with respect to ...

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   Multiple major wildfires are leaving a trail of destruction and death in the Los Angeles area.. A handful of wildfires that kicked up Tuesday, powered by high winds and dry conditions, have ...

8. Tie (music) - Wikipedia

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   The second note begins a metric grouping, falling on a stressed beat of the meter. This change in notation (choosing the tie rather than the longer note value) does not affect performance, but it makes the music easier to read.

9. Quarter tone - Wikipedia

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   A semitone is thus made of two steps, and three steps make a three-quarter tone or neutral second, half of a minor third. The 8-TET scale is composed of three-quarter tones. Four steps make a whole tone. Quarter tones and intervals close to them also occur in a number of other equally tempered tuning systems.