2:3

Chord information
Harmonics	2:3
Subharmonics	1/(3:2)
Intervals from root	1/1–3/2
Cents from root	0¢–702¢
Step intervals	3/2
Step cents	702¢
Prime limit	3
Genus	3 (3)
Intervallic odd limit	3
Otonal odd limit	3
Utonal odd limit	3
Consistent edos (d ≥ 3)	5edo, 7edo, 10edo, 12edo***, …
	* 2 ≤ d < 4; 4 ≤ d < 8; * 8 ≤ d < 16; …

2:3 is a 3-limit dyad, known as the five chord (as in C5 not V), or as the power chord. When voiced as hi5add8, it's the trine of late medieval music, in which it's a very common closing chord. This dyad is indispensable in certain musical genres such as mbira music.

Notable voicing

AOV and CAOV stand for all-odd voicing and condensed AOV respectively.


Voices	Voicing	Hi-lo name	Special properties
2 voices	1:3	hi5	AOV, isodifferential
	2:3	basic	CAOV, isodifferential
	3:4	lo5	1st inversion, isodifferential
3 voices	1:2:3	hi5add8	the trine, isodifferential
	2:3:4	add8	isodifferential
	3:4:6	addlo5	2:3:4 inverted

Related chords

Melodic inversion: itself.

Plausible homonyms: None.

Notable extensions: too many to list!