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WHAT DOES JUST INTONATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Just intonation

In music, just intonation or pure intonation is any musical tuning in which the frequencies of notes are related by ratios of small whole numbers. Any interval tuned in this way is called a pure or just interval. The two notes in any just interval are members of the same harmonic series. Frequency ratios involving large integers such as 1024:927 are not generally said to be justly tuned. "Just intonation is the tuning system of the later ancient Greek modes as codified by Ptolemy; it was the aesthetic ideal of the Renaissance theorists; and it is the tuning practice of a great many musical cultures worldwide, both ancient and modern." Just intonation can be contrasted and compared with equal temperament, which dominates Western instruments of fixed pitch and default MIDI tuning. In equal temperament, all notes are defined as multiples of the same basic interval. Two notes separated by the same number of steps always have exactly the same frequency ratio. However, except for doubled frequencies, no other intervals are exact ratios of small integers. Each just interval differs a different amount from its analogous, equally tempered interval.

Definition of just intonation in the English dictionary

The definition of just intonation in the dictionary is a form of tuning employing the pitch intervals of the untempered natural scale, sometimes employed in the playing of the violin, cello, etc.

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Translator English - Chinese

只是语调
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

entonación justa
570 millions of speakers

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just intonation
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बस काकू
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

عادل التجويد
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

только интонация
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

apenas entonação
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শুধু স্বরবর্ণ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

l´intonation juste
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Translator English - Malay

Hanya intonasi
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Translator English - German

nur Intonation
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Translator English - Japanese

純正律
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Translator English - Korean

단지 억양
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Translator English - Javanese

Mung intonasi
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Translator English - Vietnamese

chỉ ngữ điệu
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வெறும் இலக்கணம்
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फक्त लांबी
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Translator English - Turkish

Sadece tonlama
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

appena intonazione
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Translator English - Polish

tylko intonacja
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Translator English - Ukrainian

тільки інтонація
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doar intonație
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ακριβώς τονισμός
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Translator English - Afrikaans

net intonasie
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Translator English - Swedish

bara intonation
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Translator English - Norwegian

bare intonasjon
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «JUST INTONATION»

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Just Intonation and the Revitalization of Neoclassicism: ...
Part I, the critical essay, presents historical background and analysis of a cycle of three works in altered/just tuning. Part II presents scores of the works.
Graham Elliot Figg, 2008
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Coincidence Theory: Seeking a Perceptual Preference for Just ...
Arrangement of excerpts on compact disc for Pythagorean intonation, and 7 (2.43 %) for just intonation. Of the responses to Excerpt Two, 181 (62.85%) expressed a preference for equal temperament, 9 (3.12%) for Pythagorean intonation, and ...
Derle Ray Long, 2008
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Cooking with Csound: Part 1: Woodwind and brass recipes
Overview of the Pitch Input Methods Tuning of Examples C Major scale in just intonation Pate in 1 2-tone-per-octave just intonation C Major scale in just intonation Pate in 26-tone-per-octave just intonation C Major scale in 1 /4-comma  ...
Andrew Horner, Lydia Ayers, 2002
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Principles and Practice of Just Intonation. ... With an ...
Experiments of this kind point to the conclusion, thatmuch of the peculiar power possessed by the human voice, arises from the attachment to just intonation, which the employment of instruments with twelve sounds in the octave has never  ...
Thomas Perronet Thompson, 1860
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Handbook of Signal Processing in Acoustics
The Just Intionation Primer (Doty 1993) gives an introduction to just intonation, and Genesis of a Music (Partch 1974) gives a very detailed discussion. Other people prefer a wider view of just intonation, such as simple or small integer ratios.
David Havelock, Sonoko Kuwano, Michael Vorländer, 2008
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Barstow: Eight Hitchhiker Inscriptions from a Highway ...
He concluded that of three tuning systems — tempered, Pythagorean, and " natural" (pure, just) intonation — only just intonation was compatible with the natural tendencies of singers, while the other systems produced out-of-tuneness. 18 As ...
Richard Kassel, Ben Johnston, 2000
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Tuning and Temperament: A Historical Survey
This guide surveys these longstanding problems, devoting a chapter to each principal theory and offering a running account of the complete history of tuning and temperament.
J. Murray Barbour, 2013
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A Performer's Guide to Renaissance Music
Given the tenacity of the resistance of modern singers to just intonation, a tenacity reinforced by their voice teachers (if they are voice majors), it is well to be prepared for slow progress in this area,but the director should ultimately neither give ...
Jeffery T. Kite-Powell, 2007
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The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory
16 The ratios of the successive intervals within an octave in most representations of just intonation (corresponding to the major scale) are: 9:8, 10:9, 16:15,9:8, 10:9 , 9:8, 16:15. (See Backus, Acoustical Foundations, p. 125.) Harbour discusses ...
Thomas Christensen, 2002
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Violin Technique and Performance Practice in the Late ...
Although, like Galeazzi, many string players were opposed to the adoption of any system other than just intonation, numerous writers from c. 1830 onwards aimed essentially at the exclusive production of an equally tempered intonation, ...
Robin Stowell, 1990

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «JUST INTONATION»

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Green Light Performance Series being held in Madison
In 1980 Dr. Gallagher began working exclusively in just intonation using a unique compositional language, which he developed by applying ... «NJ.com, Jul 15»
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Minimalist Composer La Monte Young on His Life and …
Proponents of just intonation, as it's called, believe the 12-note system is chronically out of tune and harmful to our health — as well as the ... «Vulture, Jul 15»
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Big Phone's Machine Intelligence
"I was so fixated on using just intonation to make techno that I stopped using acoustic instruments in my tracks except for flute and things that ... «TheStranger.com, Jun 15»
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Terry Riley's delightful music-making contends with …
... was particularly satisfying to listen to Burhans' contribution (“Where the Wind Blows”) in just intonation, since Riley's The Harp of New Albion, ... «Examiner.com, Jun 15»
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Terry Rileys Maximal Minimalist Music
He has also been an influential advocate for alternative tuning approaches—hear what he does with just intonation on his seminal double ... «Daily Beast, Jun 15»
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Minimalism at 50
Riley and Young came to a mutual understanding that equal-tempered tuning was an unpleasant and unnecessary evil: just intonation was ... «Gramophone, Jun 15»
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Israeli Cellist Maya Beiser Makes Her Ojai Music Festival Debut
... “Just Ancient Loops,” a 25-minute score showcasing the virtuoso cellist's range and employing “just intonation,” an ancient tuning system. «Jewish Journal, Jun 15»
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Minimalist Master La Monte Young Drones On About His New …
Despite his legacy, Young's music hasn't always been easy to find – a 5-CD set of “The Well-Tuned Piano,” his magnum opus of just intonation, ... «Bedford + Bowery, May 15»
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Harmonic Canon? Quadrangularis Reversum? Wild musical world …
In composition and performance, Partch employed “just intonation,” also called pure intonation, which is a tuning where the frequencies of ... «UW Today, Apr 15»
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As THX Gets a New Trailer, an Interview With Its Composer
... I could use what's called just intonation.” Just intonation is a digital tuning system that helps to create a more powerful and unified sound. «New York Times, Apr 15»

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