• 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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, 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    melodic interval. When they occur simultaneously, they form a harmonic interval. Double stop Interval (music) Power chord Harmonic series (music) Counterpoint...
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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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    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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    Schisma (redirect from Grad (interval))
    In music, the schisma (also spelled skhisma) is the interval between the syntonic comma (81:80) and the Pythagorean comma ( 531 441 : 524 288 ), which...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    Savart (redirect from Meride (interval))
    The savart /səˈvɑːr/ is a unit of measurement for musical pitch intervals (play). One savart is equal to one thousandth of a decade (10/1: 3,986.313714...
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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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  • 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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    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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    In musical set theory, an interval vector is an array of natural numbers which summarize the intervals present in a set of pitch classes. (That is, a set...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    chromatic are terms in music theory that are used to characterize scales. The terms are also applied to musical instruments, intervals, chords, notes, musical...
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    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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    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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