interval - Music Glossary
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### 1.121 interval

ES: intervalo, I: intervallo, F: intervalle, D: Intervall, NL: interval, DK: interval, S: intervall, FI: intervalli, kahden sävelen korkeusero.

Difference in pitch between two notes. Intervals may be perfect, minor, major, diminished, or augmented. The augmented fourth and the diminished fifth are identical (→enharmonic) and are called tritonus because they consist of three →whole tones. The addition of such two intervals forms an octave.

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