FOURTH

, in Music, one of the harmonic intervals, or concords. It consists in the mixture of two sounds, which are in the ratio of 4 to 3; i. e. of two sounds produced by chords, whose lengths are to each other as 4 to 3.

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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.

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