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The following is a gallery of many | The following is a '''gallery of many just intervals''' that contributors to this wiki have found notable. It is of course not meant to be comprehensive, and is not the result of a systematic search. | ||
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In the actual performance of a piece of music, the number of factors involved are enormous, and it is not often helpful to reduce a musical experience to a one-dimensional description of "consonance versus dissonance." Hence the need for this gallery, to give life to conversation about what an interval means beyond the numerical description: "5/3" or "21/16" or what have you. | In the actual performance of a piece of music, the number of factors involved are enormous, and it is not often helpful to reduce a musical experience to a one-dimensional description of "consonance versus dissonance." Hence the need for this gallery, to give life to conversation about what an interval means beyond the numerical description: "5/3" or "21/16" or what have you. | ||
What follows is a | What follows is a gallery of just intervals in ascending order from [[1/1]] to [[2/1]] and beyond. No such list could possibly be complete (as there are infinite possible ratios), so please add intervals of interest as you see fit. Any rational interval is welcome, as long as the wiki author has some interest in it. | ||
This page lists links to dedicated pages for each interval, under the heading "frequency ratio". | This page lists links to dedicated pages for each interval, under the heading "frequency ratio". | ||