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Query: 5. Music, Temperament, and Social Concord{{Article buttons|override=The Creation of Order/Summer: Balancing Self-Expression With Group Order/5. Music, Temperament, and Social Concord|DeepArea=The Creation of Order/Summer: Balancing Self-Expression With Group Order/5. Music, Temperament, and Social Concord}}
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Suppose we try to tune the scale by thirds, e.g., C, E, G♯, C. We are back at the tonic. Yet here again we encounter the same problem: The third is 5/4. And (5/4)2 is 25/16. We thus are dealing once again with powers of 5 (odd number) divided by sequences of even-numbered powers of 2.

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