In music theory, an interval is a difference in pitch between two sounds. An interval may be described as horizontal, linear, or melodic if it refers to...
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Interval recognition, the ability to name and reproduce musical intervals, is an important part of ear training, music transcription, musical intonation...
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during the break Interval (play), a 1939 play by Sumner Locke Elliott Interval (film), a 1973 film starring Merle Oberon Interval (music), the relationship...
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octave or of other intervals. For commonly encountered harmonic or melodic intervals between pairs of notes in contemporary Western music theory, without...
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In music theory, the wolf fifth (sometimes also called Procrustean fifth, or imperfect fifth) is a particularly dissonant musical interval spanning seven...
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Double stop Interval (music) Power chord Harmonic series (music) Counterpoint Harnsberger, Lindsey C. (1997). "dyad". Essential Dictionary of Music: Definitions...
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In music theory, an inversion is a rearrangement of the top-to-bottom elements in an interval, a chord, a melody, or a group of contrapuntal lines of music...
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as demonstrated by microtonal music, there is no limit to how many notes can be injected within any given musical interval. A measure of the width of each...
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In music, an interval ratio is a ratio of the frequencies of the pitches in a musical interval. For example, a just perfect fifth (for example C to G)...
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of interval: Ordered pitch interval Unordered pitch interval Ordered pitch-class interval Unordered pitch-class interval The ordered pitch interval. is...
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Both of these systems, and the vast majority of music in general, have scales that repeat on the interval of every octave, which is defined as frequency...
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intervals. Twelve-tone equal temperament divides the octave into 12 semitones of 100 cents each. Typically, cents are used to express small intervals...
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Major and minor (category Intervals (music))
In Western music, the adjectives major and minor may describe an interval, chord, scale, or key. A composition, movement, section, or phrase may also be...
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Perfect fifth (redirect from Twelfth (interval))
In music theory, a perfect fifth is the musical interval corresponding to a pair of pitches with a frequency ratio of 3:2, or very nearly so. In classical...
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Unison (redirect from Prime (interval))
In music, unison is two or more musical parts that sound either the same pitch or pitches separated by intervals of one or more octaves, usually at the...
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Octave (redirect from Diapason (interval))
In music, an octave (Latin: octavus: eighth) or perfect octave (sometimes called the diapason) is a series of eight notes occupying the interval between...
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Semitone (redirect from Apotome (music))
musical interval commonly used in Western tonal music, and it is considered the most dissonant when sounded harmonically. It is defined as the interval between...
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Perfect fifths are the most commonly used interval above the root in Western classical, popular and traditional music. Some 20th-century theorists, notably...
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set theory a generic interval is the number of scale steps between notes of a collection or scale. The largest generic interval is one less than the number...
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Western music and music theory, augmentation (from Late Latin augmentare, to increase) is the lengthening of a note or the widening of an interval. Augmentation...
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In music, an interval cycle is a collection of pitch classes created from a sequence of the same interval class. In other words, a collection of pitches...
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shruti to mean the interval between two notes such that the difference between them is perceptible. In the current practice of Carnatic music, shruti has several...
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Tritone (redirect from Devil's interval)
In music theory, the tritone is defined as a musical interval spanning three adjacent whole tones (six semitones). For instance, the interval from F up...
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Enharmonic equivalence (redirect from Enharmonic interval)
In music, two written notes have enharmonic equivalence if they produce the same pitch but are notated differently. Similarly, written intervals, chords...
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Steps and skips (redirect from Skip (music))
In music, a step, or conjunct motion, is the difference in pitch between two consecutive notes of a musical scale. In other words, it is the interval between...
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musical intervals may refer to: Interval (music)#Main intervals as abstract relations between notes in western music theory. List of pitch intervals as frequency...
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Diminution (redirect from Diminished interval)
diminished interval is an interval obtained from a minor interval or perfect interval by narrowing it by a chromatic semitone, meaning that the interval is narrowed...
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Subminor and supermajor (redirect from Supermajor interval)
In music, a subminor interval is an interval that is noticeably wider than a diminished interval but noticeably narrower than a minor interval. It is...
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Perfect fourth (redirect from Diatessaron (interval))
A fourth is a musical interval encompassing four staff positions in the music notation of Western culture, and a perfect fourth (Play) is the fourth spanning...
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Alternatively, it may apply to neutral third List of musical intervals List of pitch intervals Third (music), which also includes third chords The terms tone, whole...
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