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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. 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//</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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<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>Tenney Height</title></head><body>If p/q is a positive rational number reduced to its lowest terms, then the <a class="wiki_link" href="/Benedetti%20height">Benedetti height</a> is the integer pq. Often it is more convenient instead to take the logarithm, usually base 2 (<a class="wiki_link" href="/log2">log2</a>), of the <a class="wiki_link" href="/Benedetti%20height">Benedetti height</a>, leading to Tenney <a class="wiki_link" href="/height">height</a>. In either form it is widely used as a <a class="wiki_link" href="/measure%20of%20inharmonicity">measure of inharmonicity</a> and/or complexity for intervals.<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>Tenney Height</title></head><body>If p/q is a positive rational number reduced to its lowest terms, then the <a class="wiki_link" href="/Benedetti%20height">Benedetti height</a> is the integer pq. Often it is more convenient instead to take the logarithm, usually base 2 (<a class="wiki_link" href="/log2">log2</a>), of the <a class="wiki_link" href="/Benedetti%20height">Benedetti height</a>, leading to Tenney <a class="wiki_link" href="/height">height</a>. In either form it is widely used as a <a class="wiki_link" href="/measure%20of%20inharmonicity">measure of inharmonicity</a> and/or complexity for intervals.<br /> | ||
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The name <em>Tenney height</em> stems from the fact that <a class="wiki_link" href="/James%20Tenney">James Tenney</a> proposed it. The <em>Benedetti height</em>, the product of the numerator and denominator, was first proposed as a consonance measure by the Renaissance scientist and mathematician <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.webcitation.org/6076Lm8r4" rel="nofollow">Giovanni Battista Benedetti</a>.<br /> | The name <em>Tenney height</em> stems from the fact that <a class="wiki_link" href="/James%20Tenney">James Tenney</a> proposed it. The <em>Benedetti height</em>, the product of the numerator and denominator, was first proposed as a consonance measure by the Renaissance scientist and mathematician <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.webcitation.org/6076Lm8r4" rel="nofollow">Giovanni Battista Benedetti</a>.<br /> | ||
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<em>See also, discussion at <!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:104:http://lumma.org/tuning/faq/#heights --><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://lumma.org/tuning/faq/#heights" rel="nofollow">http://lumma.org/tuning/faq/#heights</a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:104 --></em></body></html></pre></div> | <em>See also, discussion at <!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:104:http://lumma.org/tuning/faq/#heights --><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://lumma.org/tuning/faq/#heights" rel="nofollow">http://lumma.org/tuning/faq/#heights</a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:104 --> , which defines it as sqrt(n*d) instead</em></body></html></pre></div> | ||