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Seventh

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a major seventh is a semitone smaller than an octave; a minor seventh is a whole tone smaller than an octave

Disjunct

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where the notes in a melody move in leaps, intervals greater than a tone, rather than from note to neighbouring notes only a…

Whole Tone Scale

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six note scale where the interval between successive notes is a whole step See Musical Scales

Compound interval

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an interval greater than an octave, for example, a ninth, an eleventh, a thirteenth

Diatonic interval

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the interval between any two notes that both appear in the major or minor scales of the prevailing keynote

Whole Tone

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the interval of a major second

Simple interval

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an interval of an octave or less

Sequence

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Theory

Sequences create momentum and structure. They appear frequently in etudes and larger forms, where patterns are transposed ste…