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re Tanaka and the Kleisma

🔗John Chalmers <jhchalmers@xxxx.xxxx>

7/23/1999 2:08:40 PM

Tanaka defined the Kleisma (Greek for lid or lock) as 6 minor thirds
(6/5) down and a further 4/3 down, the interval between c# and fb (with
a bar over the f in his notation), the ratio 15625/15552 or 8.107+
cents. See Tanaka,Shohe'. 1890. "Studien im Gebiet der reinen
Stimmung." pp. 1-90, _in_ Vierteljahrsschrift fuer Musikwissenschaft,
Friedrich Chrysander, Philipp Spita and Guido Adler, eds., Leipzig.
Pages 8-18 of this work were excerpted and translated by Daniel J. Wolf
and appeared in Xenharmonikon 16.

--John