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=== Within a pentatonic framework ===
=== Within a pentatonic framework ===
A pentatonic framework, as elucidated in Kite Giedraitis's [http://www.tallkite.com/AlternativeTunings.html Alternative Tuning guide], is far more amenable to interseptimal intervals that the traditional Western heptatonic framework. In a pentatonic framework, there are 5 categories of intervals in the octave rather than 7, into which interseptimals fit much more cleanly:
A pentatonic framework, as elucidated in Kite Giedraitis's [http://www.tallkite.com/AlternativeTunings.html Alternative Tuning guide], is far more amenable to interseptimal intervals than the traditional Western heptatonic framework. In a pentatonic framework, there are 5 categories of intervals in the octave rather than 7, into which interseptimals fit much more cleanly:


* the subthird or penta-2nd (imperfect)
* the subthird or penta-2nd (imperfect)