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According to [http://untwelve.org/interviews/golden.html this interview], Monroe Golden's ''Incongruity'' uses just-intonation chord progressions that exploit this comma.
According to [http://untwelve.org/interviews/golden.html this interview], Monroe Golden's ''Incongruity'' uses just-intonation chord progressions that exploit this comma.


If one is so bold as to try and use 81/80 as an interval in its own right as opposed to tempering it out, one can easily use it in melodies as either an [[Wikipedia:Appoggiatura|appoggitura]], an [[Wikipedia:Acciaccatura|acciaccatura]], or a quick passing tone, and it should be noted that 81/80 is perhaps among the smallest intervals capable of this kind of function.
If one should be so bold as to treat the syntonic comma as a musical interval in its own right as opposed to tempering it out, one can easily use it in melodies as either an [[Wikipedia:Appoggiatura|appoggitura]], an [[Wikipedia:Acciaccatura|acciaccatura]], or a quick passing tone, and it should be noted that 81/80 is perhaps among the smallest intervals capable of this kind of function.


== Relations to other Superparticular Ratios ==
== Relations to other Superparticular Ratios ==