a sixth is a musical interval encompassing six note letter names or staff positions (see Interval number for more details), and the major sixth is one...

sixth chord in popular music is a short way of saying added sixth chord. There are three main types of added sixth chords: major sixth, minor sixth and...

such as 1:1 (unison), 2:1 (octave), 5:3 (major sixth), 3:2 (perfect fifth), 4:3 (perfect fourth), 5:4 (major third), 6:5 (minor third). Intervals with...

barrel The fraction 1⁄6 Sixth interval (music)s: major sixth, a musical interval minor sixth, a musical interval diminished sixth, an interval produced...

being the major sixth). It is qualified as minor because it is the smaller of the two: the minor sixth spans eight semitones, the major sixth nine. For...

which the interval of a sixth appears above a bass note that is not the root. The major sixth chord (also called, sixth or added sixth with the chord notation...

the supermajor sixth. Another example is the ratio 13:11, or 289.21 cents (E↓♭). A supermajor sixth is noticeably wider than a major sixth but noticeably...

the sixth degree of its relative major scale. For instance, the A natural minor scale can be built by starting on the 6th degree of the C major scale:...

Nights". The major sixth chord (major triad with an added major sixth) is an inversion of this chord. When the seventh note is a major seventh above...

also be called perfect, for example a perfect third (5:4) or a perfect major sixth (5:3). In addition to perfect, there are two other kinds, or qualities...

Two tones make a ditone, a dissonantly wide major third, ratio 81/64. The ditone differs from the just major third (5/4) by the syntonic comma (81/80)....

augmented sixth (Play) is an interval produced by widening a major sixth by a chromatic semitone. For instance, the interval from C to A is a major sixth, nine...

interval between a major third (5:4) and a minor third (6:5). In fact, it is the spacing between the minor and major thirds, sixths, and sevenths (but...

= 5⁄6–1⁄1–9⁄8–5⁄4–3⁄2). (A minor seventh can be 7:4, 16:9, or 9:5; a major sixth can be 27:16 or 5:3. Both were chosen to minimize ratio parts.) Assigning...

the major mode by borrowing ♭ of the parallel minor scale. There are three main types of augmented sixth chords, commonly known as the Italian sixth, the...

Imperfect consonances: major thirds and minor sixths minor thirds and major sixths Dissonances may include: Dissonance major seconds and minor seventh...

with a minor third and seventh, a major second and sixth, and a perfect fourth and fifth, notated relative to the major scale as: 1, 2, ♭3, 4, 5, 6, ♭7...

alto saxophone is a transposing instrument, with pitches sounding a major sixth lower than written. In terms of concert pitches, the alto saxophone's...

voicing, a major triad with an added major sixth is usually called a sixth chord Play, because the sixth serves as a substitution for the major seventh,...

Since the diminished seventh interval is enharmonically equivalent to a major sixth, the chord is enharmonically equivalent to (1, ♭3, ♭5, ♮6). The diminished...

The difference between a Pythagorean major sixth (27:16, about 905.87 cents) and a justly tuned or "pure" major sixth (5:3, about 884.36 cents). Namely,...

18th century for the interval of a sixth ("hexachord major" being the major sixth and "hexachord minor" the minor sixth). The hexachord as a mnemonic device...

seventh chord in a key a minor third (m3 as root), tritone (d5 as root) or major sixth (d7 as root) away. Where the dominant seventh is found in all diatonic...

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Sixth College is the sixth and third-newest college of the University of California, San Diego. It was established in September 2001. Sixth College's...

tuned minor third by a syntonic comma. Its inversion is a Pythagorean major sixth.[citation needed] Musical tuning List of meantone intervals Pythagorean...

as one increases prime limits to 11, it gradually gets worse by about a sixth of a semitone each time. Its eleventh and thirteenth harmonics are extremely...

natural minor scale is in the sixth scale degree, which is a major sixth (M6) above the tonic, rather than a minor sixth (m6). Tonic triad: Dm Tonic seventh...

it is common to assess perfect fifths and fourths, major and minor thirds, and major and minor sixths, often playing the intervals in an ascending or descending...

minor sixth = 8 semitones above the root 6 = major sixth = 9 semitones above the root 7 = minor seventh = 10 semitones above the root M7 or maj7 = major seventh...