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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">If p/q is a positive rational number reduced to its lowest terms, then the **Tenney height**, named for [[James Tenney]] who proposed it, is the integer pq. Often it is more convenient instead to take the logarithm, usually base 2 ([[log2]]), of the height. In either form it is widely used as a [[measure of inharmonicity]] and/or complexity for intervals.
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The [[Tenney Height|Tenney height]] of a [[monzo]] is given by
The [[Tenney Height|Tenney height]] of a [[monzo]] is given by
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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. However, it has been proposed that it should be called //Benedetti height//, since the first person to propose it as a consonance measure seems to have been Renaissance scientist and mathematician [[http://www.webcitation.org/6076Lm8r4|Giovanni Battista Benedetti]].


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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. However, it has been proposed that it should be called &lt;em&gt;Benedetti height&lt;/em&gt;, since the first person to propose it as a consonance measure seems to have been 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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