intervals of an octave, a fifth and a fourth
Perfect interval
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Perfect
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intervals of a unison, octave, fourth, and fifth when they are exactly in tune and neither augmented nor diminished
Perfectus
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intervals of a unison, octave, fourth, and fifth when they are exactly in tune and neither augmented nor diminished
Quartal
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chords built of the interval of a fourth or fifth
Circle of fifths
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chain of intervals. each interval a fifth, after passing through every note of the scale returns to a note, several octaves d…
Compound interval
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an interval greater than an octave, for example, a ninth, an eleventh, a thirteenth
Diminished
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an interval narrowed by one semitone from a perfect or minor interval
Eleventh
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a compound interval of an octave plus a fourth
Equal temperament
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the modern method of tuning where the interval of an octave is exact and the interval between each successive semitone is equ…