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▸ noun: (music) A musical temperament that generates all non-octave intervals from a stack of identical perfect fifths all tuned flat from their just ratio of 3/2. When the amount of flattening makes the major and minor thirds appropriate sizes, the syntonic comma is tempered out to a unison.
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▸ noun: (music) A musical temperament that generates all non-octave intervals from a stack of identical perfect fifths all tuned flat from their just ratio of 3/2. When the amount of flattening makes the major and minor thirds appropriate sizes, the syntonic comma is tempered out to a unison.
Similar:
whole tone,
equal temperament,
just intonation,
tone,
perfect fifth,
wholetone,
major third,
semitone,
diminished fifth,
minor seventh,
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