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Just intonation - Non-western tuning: Encyclopedia II - Just intonation - Non-western tuning

In Indian music, the basic unaltered diatonic scale is considered to be 1/1, 9/8, 5/4, 4/3, 3/2, 27/16, 15/8, 2/1. This would appear problematic, since (27/16):(5/4) = 27:20 (a wolf interval), not 4:3. But Indian music uses melodies over a drone dyad (usually 1/1 and 3/2), so these two pitches (27/16 and 5/4) would seldom be heard sounding together. See sargam and swara. [The just scale with the ratios 1/1, 9/8, 5/4, 4/3, 3/2, *5/3*, 15/8, 2/1 gives (5/3):(5/4) = 4:3 (a perfect fourth), and allows these notes to sound together in a co ...

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Just intonation: Encyclopedia II - Just intonation - Non-western tuning

Just intonation - Non-western tuning

[The just scale with the ratios 1/1, 9/8, 5/4, 4/3, 3/2, *5/3*, 15/8, 2/1 gives (5/3):(5/4) = 4:3 (a perfect fourth), and allows these notes to sound together in a consonant fashion, but then introduces another problem in that (5/3):(9/8) = 40:27 (a wolf interval), not 3:2. These issues prevented strict just intonation from becoming prevalent in the West, but it thrives in India, where they are largely irrelevant.]