music Music is generally defined as the The arts, art of arranging sound to create some combination of Musical form, form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise Musical expression, expressive content. Exact definition of music, definitions of mu ...

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

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 of 16/15.

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