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- n. A musical interval that spans two degrees of diatonic scale.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Mus.) an interval of a tone and a half.
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Musical Intervals
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ecbrenner "A minor third is a musical interval of three semitones. It is the smaller of two commonly occurring musical intervals compounded of two steps of the diatonic scale. The prefix 'minor' identifies it as being the smaller of the two (by one semitone); its larger counterpart being a major third. The minor third is abbreviated as m3 and its inversion is the major sixth." --Wikipedia Jul 21, 2009