a form of tuning employing the pitch intervals of the untempered natural scale, sometimes employed in the playing of the violin, cello, etc
just intonation in American English
noun
Music
a system of tuning based on the pure perfect fifth and major third
Word origin
[1840–50]This word is first recorded in the period 1840–50. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: colloid, creationism, organizer, plaque, sensationalism
Examples of 'just intonation' in a sentence
just intonation
Pythagorean intonation and just intonation serve as two examples.
Timothy M. True 2018, 'The Battle Between Impeccable Intonation and Maximized Modulation', Musical Offeringshttps://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/musicalofferings/vol9/iss2/2/. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
We find that the higher recurrence peaks exactly match the epochs corresponding to just intonation frequency ratios.
Lluis L. Trulla, Nicola Di Stefano, Alessandro Giuliani 2018, 'Computational Approach to Musical Consonance and Dissonance', Frontiers in Psychologyhttp://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00381/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)