In music, the minor diatonic semitone is a ratio of 17:16,Prout, Ebenezer (1889). Harmony: Its Theory and Practice, p.25. Augener & Forgotten Books. .Anger, Joseph Humfrey (1912). A Treatise on Harmony with Exercises, Part 3, p.xiv. Boston Music. making it the seventeenth harmonicHaluška, Ján (2003). The Mathematical Theory of Tone Systems, p.xxiv & 25. . or partial. This is in contrast to the 5-limit major diatonic semitone of 16/15.
See also Septimal diatonic semitone
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