• Thumbnail for Wolf interval
    music theory, the wolf fifth (sometimes also called Procrustean fifth, or imperfect fifth) is a particularly dissonant musical interval spanning seven semitones...
    24 KB (3,113 words) - 17:54, 25 June 2024
  • likened to the howling of a wolf. A somewhat similar sound is the beating produced by a wolf interval, which is usually the interval between E♭ and G♯ of the...
    6 KB (668 words) - 13:25, 2 September 2024
  • from E♯ to C, is not a wolf interval in 12 tone equal temperament (TET), 17 TET, or 19 TET; however, it is a wolf interval in 26 TET, 31 TET, and 50 ET...
    35 KB (3,958 words) - 00:50, 11 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pythagorean tuning
    Pythagorean tuning (category 3-limit tuning and intervals)
    is unplayable in this tuning. A very out-of-tune interval such as this one is known as a wolf interval. In the case of Pythagorean tuning, all the fifths...
    26 KB (2,585 words) - 17:36, 27 August 2024
  • In music theory, an interval is a difference in pitch between two sounds. An interval may be described as horizontal, linear, or melodic if it refers...
    78 KB (8,704 words) - 21:57, 10 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Just intonation
    intervals as whole number ratios (such as 3:2 or 4:3) of frequencies. An interval tuned in this way is said to be pure, and is called a just interval...
    50 KB (5,545 words) - 19:24, 17 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Musical temperament
    minor keys. However, while unpleasant intervals (such as the wolf interval) were avoided, the sizes of intervals were still not consistent between keys...
    19 KB (2,176 words) - 17:47, 6 February 2024
  • formula for the interval ratio. The intervals diminished fourth, diminished sixth and augmented second may be regarded as wolf intervals, and have been...
    43 KB (5,352 words) - 03:56, 20 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Prelude and Fugue in C major, BWV 846
    Prelude in C major (BWV 846) Bars 1 to 5... ... with wolf interval Bars 1 to 5 ... ... with comma differences without harmonic seventh Bars 1 to 5 .....
    13 KB (1,026 words) - 03:49, 5 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pythagorean interval
    In musical tuning theory, a Pythagorean interval is a musical interval with a frequency ratio equal to a power of two divided by a power of three, or vice...
    14 KB (636 words) - 10:18, 19 August 2023