Talk:5/4

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"classic" misleading

To me it seems we'd better name it "just major third". The word "classic" is so closely related to Classical music that it suggests 4\12 or some meantone variant. --Xenwolf (talk) 09:55, 9 October 2020 (UTC)

We could instead add one ore more of: "octave-reduced 5th harmonic", "harmonic third", "natural third" ... --Xenwolf (talk) 09:58, 9 October 2020 (UTC)

1. Dave Keenan used "classic" to refer to 5-limit as opposed to "Pythgorean", though he did say it may be omitted for the simplest ratio in the class. I see it reasonable.
2. Suppose we change this to "just major third", what about 8/5, 5/3, 6/5, 16/15, 25/24 and others? FloraC (talk) 10:18, 9 October 2020 (UTC)

I now think that classic and just are not unambiguous in our context (they are in themselves much more evaluative than meaningful). And yes, you are absolute right about (2)! What if we add just after classic for now and wait for responses? ... --Xenwolf (talk) 11:28, 9 October 2020 (UTC)

I'm absolutely okay with that. FloraC (talk) 12:06, 9 October 2020 (UTC)

Not going to lie, I actually like the name "Classic Diatonic Major Third" when referring to 5/4, namely because of the contrast with Pythagorean intervals. --Aura (talk) 12:29, 9 October 2020 (UTC)