A septimal comma is a small musical interval in just intonation that contains the number seven in its prime factorization. There is more than one such...
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are a septimal kleisma apart. Translated in this context, "comma" means "a hair" as in "off by just a hair"[citation needed]. The word "comma" came via...
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about 62.96 cents wide. The septimal 1/3-tone can be viewed either as a musical interval in its own right, or as a comma; if it is tempered out in a given...
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septimal in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Septimal may refer to: Septimal chromatic semitone, the interval 21:20, about 84.47 cents Septimal comma...
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cents (play).[citation needed] It is also called the small septimal comma and the starling comma after its use in starling temperament. Factored into primes...
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In music, the ratio 225/224 is called the septimal kleisma (play). It is a minute comma type interval of approximately 7.7 cents. Factoring it into primes...
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Diesis (category Commas (music))
cents. The septimal diesis (or slendro diesis) is an interval with the ratio of 49:48 play, which is the difference between the septimal whole tone and...
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tone and the septimal minor third. It is about 35.7 cents wide, which is narrower than a quarter-tone but wider than the septimal comma. It may also be...
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Pythagorean comma (531441:524288) on C In musical tuning, the Pythagorean comma (or ditonic comma), named after the ancient mathematician and philosopher...
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A septimal tritone is a tritone (about one half of an octave) that involves the factor seven. There are two that are inverses. The lesser septimal tritone...
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