Septimal Kleisma
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In music, the ratio 225/224 is called the septimal kleisma (). It is a minute
comma The comma is a punctuation mark that appears in several variants in different languages. It has the same shape as an apostrophe or single closing quotation mark () in many typefaces, but it differs from them in being placed on the baseline ...
type interval of approximately 7.7 cents. Factoring it into primes gives 2−5 32 52 7−1, which can be rewritten 2−1 (5/4)2 (9/7). That says that it is the amount that two major thirds of 5/4 and a
septimal major third In music, the septimal major third , also called the supermajor third (by Hermann von Helmholtz among others Hermann L. F. von Helmholtz (2007). ''Sensations of Tone'', p. 187. .) and sometimes '' Bohlen–Pierce third'' is the musical interval ...
, or supermajor third, of 9/7 exceeds the octave. The septimal kleisma can also be viewed as the difference between the diatonic semitone (16:15) and the septimal diatonic semitone (15:14).


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