Talk:Perfect fourth

message: <snip nonsense by User:213.242.170.86>
:What language is all this nonsense?? Please translate into English. 66.245.64.45 17:35, 5 Jun 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I've taken the liberty of removing the first anon's comments because they were offensive, irrelevant, in Swedish, and for all I know libellous.  —Blotwell 05:09, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Removed discussion

message: I've long thot (and read in a book called "Temperament") that 4:3 was the ratio of a perfect third: B to the F+ below it (248Hz to 186Hz), but there doesn't seem to be a page about the perfect third.
:If the book called it that it made an error. The just interval F# to B (4:3) is a perfect fourth. The only diatonic thirds are major (5:4) and minor (6:5).--Glenn L (talk) 02:22, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Perfect third?

message: I wonder if by "consonant", some authors mean "assonant".
Only recently have I gotten the impression that these were synonyms.
Brewhaha@edmc.net 06:57, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Not sure how: assonance is literary term.  --Jubilee♫clipman 01:36, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

text: The short answer is "no". Perfect fourth is a musical term, see consonance and dissonance. Hyacinth (talk) 23:31, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Assonant or consonant

message: Why does the search for Diatessaron go directly to the religious page when it is primarily a musical term? 
Before I searched Wikipedia, I had never seen the religious usage before. And that isn't what I was looking for.
The religious term is not the primary definition of Diatessaron, the musical one is. The term was first used several centuries before Christ, as a musical term, in pre-Christian classical ancient Greece.
The result page should show the different meanings in a disambiguation page. It is not helpful to direct people automatically to a secondary meaning (secondary both semantically and historically).
If anyone knows how to do this it is a good idea to fix this up and will prevent other people searching for music-historical information from being misdirected to a page about religion.
thanks  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.175.172.24 (talk) 00:05, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It's called archaic. It primarily was a musical term that has been replaced. Hyacinth (talk) 10:24, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why does the search for Diatessaron go directly to the religious page when it is primarily a musical term? 

message: Where, why, and how does this article need additional citations? Hyacinth (talk) 21:06, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Needed now... (see below) --Jubilee♫clipman 22:47, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Many unreferenced claims and paragraphs constituting Original Research are now marked individually.—Jerome Kohl (talk) 23:47, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Such as? Hyacinth (talk) 10:23, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Such as most of the first half of the section titled "Short history of the fourth", which is bristling with "citation needed" tags.—Jerome Kohl (talk) 17:17, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, misread or misinterpreted. Hyacinth (talk) 01:08, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Additional citations

message: Much of the stuff over there was clearly better here so I've moved it and tidied up a little.  Please don't move it back: this stuff has little relevence to quartal harmony.  Refs needed and expansion of C20th stuff.  --Jubilee♫clipman 22:44, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Added from [[quartal and quintal harmony]]

message: Looking at this sentence "The term perfect identifies this interval as belonging to the group of perfect intervals, so called because they are neither major nor minor (unlike thirds, which are either minor or major) but perfect", it seems to me this is just like saying that grass is green because it's neither red nor blue. In fact, we do know why grass is green, but I've never seen a definition of what makes an interval major, minor or perfect.  Is there a simple definition?  
Mandolamus (talk) 23:48, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  What makes a perfect interval perfect? 

message: I've added fr:Quarte_(musique)#Quarte_juste to the page as the only way I know of getting an interlanguage link to the equivalent article(-part) in the French Wikipedia to appear. I'm aware that this way of doing things has been superseded by some far more whizzy procedure. The trouble is: I don't know what it is! Can anyone point me to an idiot's guide explaining how I should be doing this? TIA -- Picapica (talk) 19:41, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interlanguage link(s) 

message: The article states that the complement of a perfect fifth has a ratio of 3:4. But it doesn't say what that means, nor is the word "complement" found anywhere in the article Interval (music). What does it mean? -lethe talk [ +] 22:04, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: As I understand it, the complement of an interval is "the rest of an octave." In other words, stacking an interval and its complement make an octave. Another pair of complementary intervals is a third and a sixth, for example G4 to B4 and B4 to G5. Just plain Bill (talk) 22:39, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is the complement of an interval?