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proportion (music)

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proportion

In music, the mathematical relationship between the numbers of vibrations of different notes, which are exactly in tune with each other when the ratios between these vibrations are mathematically correct. For instance, a perfect fifth stands in the relation of 2:3 in the number of vibrations of its two notes. The term proportion was also used in early music to designate the rhythmic relationships between one time-signature and another.



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