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| Name = Pythagorean augmented sixth, pentatone | | Name = Pythagorean augmented sixth, pentatone | ||
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pentatone
reduced harmonic
The Pythagorean augmented sixth, otherwise known as the pentatone, 59049/32768, is the interval found by stacking five (Pythagorean whole) tones (9/8). It exceeds the classical minor seventh (9/5) by a schisma. The Medieval music theorist Jacobus of Liège described it along with the ditone, tritone, tetratone, and hexatone, and considered the pentatone to be highly discordant.[1]
See also
- 32768/19683 – its twelfth complement
Notes
- ↑ Pythagorean Tuning and Medieval Polyphony, Margo Schulter, 10 June 1998