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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== See also == | == See also == | ||
* [[Mercator's comma]] | * [[Mercator's comma]] | ||