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Volume 20 · 56 words · 1842 Edition

in Music, the ratio of 3 : 2 in the numerical calculation of musical intervals. This, and many other old pedantic terms, such as super-particular and super-partent, &c., employed to express ratios very simple, and easily intelligible under other terms, had better be abandoned entirely in musical nomenclature, which has long been overloaded with such jargon.