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|| harmonic seventh || 7/4 || |-2 0 0 1&gt; || log2(28) = 4.807 ||
|| harmonic seventh || 7/4 || |-2 0 0 1&gt; || log2(28) = 4.807 ||


The name //Tenney height// stems from the fact that [[James Tenney]] proposed it. The //Benedetti height//, the product of the numerator and denominator, was first proposed as a consonance measure by the Renaissance scientist and mathematician [[http://www.webcitation.org/6076Lm8r4|Giovanni Battista Benedetti]].
The name //Tenney height// stems from the fact that [[James Tenney]] proposed it, using the name "harmonic distance". The //Benedetti height//, the product of the numerator and denominator, was first proposed as a consonance measure by the Renaissance scientist and mathematician [[http://www.webcitation.org/6076Lm8r4|Giovanni Battista Benedetti]].


//See also, discussion at http://lumma.org/tuning/faq/#heights , which defines it as sqrt(n*d) instead//</pre></div>
//See also, discussion at http://lumma.org/tuning/faq/#heights , which defines it as sqrt(n*d) instead//</pre></div>
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The name &lt;em&gt;Tenney height&lt;/em&gt; stems from the fact that &lt;a class="wiki_link" href="/James%20Tenney"&gt;James Tenney&lt;/a&gt; proposed it. The &lt;em&gt;Benedetti height&lt;/em&gt;, the product of the numerator and denominator, was first proposed as a consonance measure by the Renaissance scientist and mathematician &lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.webcitation.org/6076Lm8r4" rel="nofollow"&gt;Giovanni Battista Benedetti&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
The name &lt;em&gt;Tenney height&lt;/em&gt; stems from the fact that &lt;a class="wiki_link" href="/James%20Tenney"&gt;James Tenney&lt;/a&gt; proposed it, using the name &amp;quot;harmonic distance&amp;quot;. The &lt;em&gt;Benedetti height&lt;/em&gt;, the product of the numerator and denominator, was first proposed as a consonance measure by the Renaissance scientist and mathematician &lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.webcitation.org/6076Lm8r4" rel="nofollow"&gt;Giovanni Battista Benedetti&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;See also, discussion at &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:104:http://lumma.org/tuning/faq/#heights --&gt;&lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://lumma.org/tuning/faq/#heights" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://lumma.org/tuning/faq/#heights&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:104 --&gt; , which defines it as sqrt(n*d) instead&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt;</pre></div>
&lt;em&gt;See also, discussion at &lt;!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:104:http://lumma.org/tuning/faq/#heights --&gt;&lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://lumma.org/tuning/faq/#heights" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://lumma.org/tuning/faq/#heights&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:104 --&gt; , which defines it as sqrt(n*d) instead&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt;</pre></div>