music Music is generally defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise expressive content. Exact definitions of music vary considerably around the world, though it is an aspect ...

, the minor diatonic semitone is a ratio of 17:16,Anger, Joseph Humfrey (1912).
A Treatise on Harmony with Exercises, Part 3
', p.xiv. Boston Music. making it the seventeenth

harmonic A harmonic is a wave with a frequency that is a positive integer multiple of the ''fundamental frequency'', the frequency of the original periodic signal, such as a sinusoidal wave. The original signal is also called the ''1st harmonic'', the ...

Haluška, Ján (2003). ''The Mathematical Theory of Tone Systems'', p.xxiv & 25. . or partial. This is in contrast to the 5-limit

major diatonic semitone A semitone, also called a half step or a half tone, is the smallest musical interval commonly used in Western tonal music, and it is considered the most dissonant when sounded harmonically. It is defined as the interval between two adjacent no ...

of 16/15.

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