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<div style="width:100%; max-height:400pt; overflow:auto; background-color:#f8f9fa; border: 1px solid #eaecf0; padding:0em"><pre style="margin:0px;border:none;background:none;word-wrap:break-word;white-space: pre-wrap ! important" class="old-revision-html">The 17th harmonic, octave reduced to the frequency ratio [[17_16|17/16]], is about 105¢. It is likely to sound dissonant against the fundamental, which is perhaps one reason why [[Just Intonation]] composers usually stop at the [[13-limit]] or lower. Another interval of 17 that can sound just as dissonant is [[18_17|18/17]], about 99¢. Thus, 17/16 also clashes with [[9_8|9/8]]. Therefore, one approach for 17-limit harmony is to filter the total list of chords to exclude these small steps, resulting in non-rooted harmonies. | <div style="width:100%; max-height:400pt; overflow:auto; background-color:#f8f9fa; border: 1px solid #eaecf0; padding:0em"><pre style="margin:0px;border:none;background:none;word-wrap:break-word;white-space: pre-wrap ! important" class="old-revision-html">The 17th harmonic, octave reduced to the frequency ratio [[17_16|17/16]], is about 105¢. It is likely to sound dissonant against the fundamental, which is perhaps one reason why [[Just Intonation]] composers usually stop at the [[13-limit]] or lower. Another interval of 17 that can sound just as dissonant is [[18_17|18/17]], about 99¢. Thus, 17/16 also clashes with [[9_8|9/8]]. Therefore, one approach for 17-limit harmony is to filter the total list of chords to exclude these small steps, resulting in non-rooted harmonies. | ||
Every otonal tetrad within the 17-limit is listed in the table below as the simplest possible subset of harmonics 2-17; there are 56 in total. The columns to the right of the chords provide different cutoffs for filtering out small steps. For example, chords with a 16/15 cutoff do not contain 17/16 | Every otonal tetrad within the 17-limit is listed in the table below as the simplest possible subset of harmonics 2-17; there are 56 in total. The columns to the right of the chords provide different cutoffs for filtering out small steps. For example, chords with a 16/15 cutoff do not contain any interval smaller than or equal to 16/15 (which includes 17/16 and 18/17) among the dyads. Since this eliminates harmonics 2 and 9 right away, it also eliminates chords containing 10/9 and 9/8. (This is why there is a jump from 12/11 to 9/8 in the table below.) | ||
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<div style="width:100%; max-height:400pt; overflow:auto; background-color:#f8f9fa; border: 1px solid #eaecf0; padding:0em"><pre style="margin:0px;border:none;background:none;word-wrap:break-word;width:200%;white-space: pre-wrap ! important" class="old-revision-html"><html><head><title>seventeen limit tetrads</title></head><body>The 17th harmonic, octave reduced to the frequency ratio <a class="wiki_link" href="/17_16">17/16</a>, is about 105¢. It is likely to sound dissonant against the fundamental, which is perhaps one reason why <a class="wiki_link" href="/Just%20Intonation">Just Intonation</a> composers usually stop at the <a class="wiki_link" href="/13-limit">13-limit</a> or lower. Another interval of 17 that can sound just as dissonant is <a class="wiki_link" href="/18_17">18/17</a>, about 99¢. Thus, 17/16 also clashes with <a class="wiki_link" href="/9_8">9/8</a>. Therefore, one approach for 17-limit harmony is to filter the total list of chords to exclude these small steps, resulting in non-rooted harmonies.<br /> | <div style="width:100%; max-height:400pt; overflow:auto; background-color:#f8f9fa; border: 1px solid #eaecf0; padding:0em"><pre style="margin:0px;border:none;background:none;word-wrap:break-word;width:200%;white-space: pre-wrap ! important" class="old-revision-html"><html><head><title>seventeen limit tetrads</title></head><body>The 17th harmonic, octave reduced to the frequency ratio <a class="wiki_link" href="/17_16">17/16</a>, is about 105¢. It is likely to sound dissonant against the fundamental, which is perhaps one reason why <a class="wiki_link" href="/Just%20Intonation">Just Intonation</a> composers usually stop at the <a class="wiki_link" href="/13-limit">13-limit</a> or lower. Another interval of 17 that can sound just as dissonant is <a class="wiki_link" href="/18_17">18/17</a>, about 99¢. Thus, 17/16 also clashes with <a class="wiki_link" href="/9_8">9/8</a>. Therefore, one approach for 17-limit harmony is to filter the total list of chords to exclude these small steps, resulting in non-rooted harmonies.<br /> | ||
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Every otonal tetrad within the 17-limit is listed in the table below as the simplest possible subset of harmonics 2-17; there are 56 in total. The columns to the right of the chords provide different cutoffs for filtering out small steps. For example, chords with a 16/15 cutoff do not contain 17/16 | Every otonal tetrad within the 17-limit is listed in the table below as the simplest possible subset of harmonics 2-17; there are 56 in total. The columns to the right of the chords provide different cutoffs for filtering out small steps. For example, chords with a 16/15 cutoff do not contain any interval smaller than or equal to 16/15 (which includes 17/16 and 18/17) among the dyads. Since this eliminates harmonics 2 and 9 right away, it also eliminates chords containing 10/9 and 9/8. (This is why there is a jump from 12/11 to 9/8 in the table below.)<br /> | ||