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Chapter 3

This document defines different types of musical intervals and their characteristics. It discusses that intervals are the relationship between two pitches and are named by the number of notes between them. It describes perfect, major, and minor intervals found within a major scale. It also defines augmented and diminished intervals that occur when perfect or major/minor intervals are altered by a half step. Enharmonic intervals with the same sound but different spelling are also mentioned.

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Chapter 3

This document defines different types of musical intervals and their characteristics. It discusses that intervals are the relationship between two pitches and are named by the number of notes between them. It describes perfect, major, and minor intervals found within a major scale. It also defines augmented and diminished intervals that occur when perfect or major/minor intervals are altered by a half step. Enharmonic intervals with the same sound but different spelling are also mentioned.

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Intervals

Intervals
• An interval is the relationship in pitch between two tones. Intervals
are named by the number of diatonic notes
• The intervals that include the tonic (keynote) and the fourth and fifth
scale degrees of a major scale are called perfect.
• In addition, the unison and the octave are called perfect
• The intervals from the tonic (keynote) in an upward direction to the
second, to the third, to the sixth, and to the seventh scale degrees of
a major scale are called major.
• When a major interval is made one half step smaller, it becomes
minor. This can be done either by raising the bottom note or lowering
the top note.
Consonance and Dissonance
• The terms consonance and dissonance are defi ned in a variety of
ways, depending on the context. In acoustics, the consonances are
those intervals that are found as the lower mem_x0002_bers of the
harmonic series
Augmented and Diminished Intervals
• If a perfect or major interval is made one half step larger (without
changing its inter_x0002_val number) it becomes augmented. If a
perfect or minor interval is made one half step smaller (without
changing its interval number) it becomes diminished.
Enharmonic Intervals
• Enharmonic intervals are intervals with the same sound that are
spelled differently. Such intervals result, of course, from enharmonic
tones
The Tritone
• The most common enharmonic intervals are the augmented fourth
and the diminished fifth, which divide the octave into two equal
parts.

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