Enharmonic equivalence is not to be confused with octave equivalence, nor are enharmonic intervals to be confused with compound intervals.
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The importance of spelling stems from the historical practice of differentiating the frequency ratios of enharmonic intervals such as G G and G A.
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In other words, if two notes have the same accidentals, they are enharmonic . " " Enharmonic intervals " are intervals with the same sound that are spelled differently & [ resulting ], of course, from enharmonic tones ."
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The chanson " Seigneur Dieu ta piti?" of 1558 made use of justly tuned enharmonic intervals which, if played on a keyboard instrument, would require nineteen keys per octave; Costeley specifies that tuning such an instrument in equal " thirds of a tone " would be necessary to perform his chanson.
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The piece uses, " chains of just tuned ( untempered ) chromatic or enharmonic intervals . . . which sound'out of tune .'" [ note the difference between'keyboard distance'in this tuning and pitch or interval distance : for example a fifteenth, two keys with fifteen notes between them, on a normally tuned keyboard is a double octave, while in this tuning a fifteenth is slightly sharper than that]