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"Diminished 5th" incompletely named, maybe misplaced #44

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maiamcc opened this issue Aug 9, 2020 · 1 comment
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"Diminished 5th" incompletely named, maybe misplaced #44

maiamcc opened this issue Aug 9, 2020 · 1 comment

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@maiamcc
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maiamcc commented Aug 9, 2020

To call this interval just "diminished 5th" is to give just half the information. Idk if this is an apt comparison but say you were doing an exercise to train perfect pitch: I would expect to see an option labeled, e.g. "G#/Ab" rather than just one spelling or the other. (A tritone is also sliiiightly more likely to appear in the wild spelled as an aug. 4th than a dim. 5th, but that's maybe besides the point.)

Options:

  • leave it as is. It's not WRONG, I'm just a pedant
  • Label it Augmented 4th/Diminished 5th. Too long to fit easily on the button, would require font size magic or something.
  • Label it Aug. 4th/Dim. 5th
  • Label it Tritone (I think I like this option best)

The other thing that's weird here is the fact that the button is aligned with "P5" -- if we rename the interval to reflect that it's either a modified 4th or a modified 5th (even beyond pedantry, it might be more pedagogically sound), the current button placement stops making sense, and . I think ideally it would be positioned between the 4ths row and the 5ths row, but I think that involves some CSS grid-fu that I lack. (@harrislapiroff is this easy or obnoxious?)

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ruthie commented Aug 9, 2020

Tritone seems like a fine name.

I think the placement makes sense, though. Buttons in the righthand column are a half step below ones in the lefthand column.

Thanks for pointing this out!

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