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- n. music A musical interval of the Western twelve-semitone system consisting of nine semitones and spanning six degrees of the diatonic scale. It is one semitone wider than a minor sixth and enharmonically equivalent to a diminished seventh.
GNU Webster's 1913
- (Mus.) a sixth of four steps and a half step. In major keys the third and sixth from the key tone are major. Major keys and intervals, as distinguished from minors, are more cheerful.
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I'm trying to memorize melodic intervals by tagging common songs that start with them. For example Happy Birthday is a good way to remember a major second, and so on. Feel free to suggest weird old...
unison, minor second, major second, minor third, major third, perfect fourth, perfect fifth, minor sixth, major sixth, minor seventh, major seventh, octave and 15 more...
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