Pythagorean scale

American  

noun

Music.

1. the major scale as derived acoustically by Pythagoras from the perfect fifth.

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Example Sentences

Because Tony was the person who explained what a Pythagorean scale is and what just intonation was.

From The Guardian

The Pythagorean scale of numbers was at once discovered to be perfect; but the poems of Homer we yet know not to transcend the common limits of human intelligence, but by remarking that nation after nation, and century after century, has been able to do little more than transpose his incidents, new name his characters, and paraphrase his sentiments.

From Project Gutenberg

The Pythagorean scale of numbers was at once discovered to be perfect; but the poems of Homer we yet know not to transcend the common limits of human intelligence, but by remarking, that nation after nation, and century after century, has been able to do little more than transpose his incidents, new-name his characters, and paraphrase his sentiments.

From Project Gutenberg