Ptolemaic interpretation

An interpretation of Aristoxenos's thirty acoustically equal "parts" to the Perfect Fourth as aliquot parts of a vibrating string 120 units in length. While incorrect because the resulting intervals are not perceptually equal, interesting tetrachords result.

[from John Chalmers, Divisions of the Tetrachord]

see also my paper on Aristoxenus.

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