Fact Check - 5. Music, Temperament, and Social Concord

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The Creation of Order »  Query: 5. Music, Temperament, and Social Concord

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To fill out the scale we need a series of fifths. This is in nature the second overtone one hears over low C: the G. And musicians soon found that this note could be produced by the ratio 3:2.

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