Editing Ditone (section)

==Equal temperament==
Modern writers occasionally use the word "ditone" to describe the interval of a major third in [[equal temperament]].<ref>Anonymous, "Ditonus", ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', second edition, edited by [[Stanley Sadie]] and [[John Tyrrell (professor of music)|John Tyrrell]] (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).</ref> For example, "In modern acoustics, the equal-tempered semitone has 100 cents, the tone 200 cents, the ditone or major third 400 cents, the perfect fourth 500 cents, and so on. …”<ref>Manuel Pedro Ferreira, "Proportions in Ancient and Medieval Music", in ''Mathematics and Music: A Diderot Mathematical Forum'', edited by Gerard Assayag, Hans Georg Feichtinger, and José Francesco Rodrigues, 1–17 (Berlin, Heidelberg, and New York: Springer, 2002): 5. {{ISBN|3540437274}}.</ref>