Holdrian comma: Difference between revisions

That Mercator's comma isn't our Mercator's comma. Comment out. Pending rewrite.
-"in modern music" section. There's lots of 53edo music and there's no reason why Juhan Puhm needs to be singled out.
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William Holder, for whom the ''Holdrian'' comma is named, favored this latter unit because the intervals of [[53edo]] are closer to [[just intonation]] than to [[55edo]]. Thus Mercator's comma and the Holdrian comma are two distinct but nearly equal intervals.
William Holder, for whom the ''Holdrian'' comma is named, favored this latter unit because the intervals of [[53edo]] are closer to [[just intonation]] than to [[55edo]]. Thus Mercator's comma and the Holdrian comma are two distinct but nearly equal intervals.
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== In modern music ==
21st century composer [[Juhan Puhm]] sometimes uses tunings defined via this interval.
== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Mercator's comma]]
* [[Mercator's comma]]