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The Music of Hindostan c9.s1.54

The Music of Hindostan c9.s1.54

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c9.s1.54

¹ Cents are a set of slightly modified logarithms of fractional ratios between 1 and 2, and represent musical intervals within the compass of an octave (2/1) correct to the hundredth part of a semitone. The system is explained in Appendix XX of the second edition of Ellis’s Translation of Helmholtz’s *Sensations of Tone*. (This appendix is not in the first edition.)