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Categories: Sixths (music), Major intervals

sixth major sixth 19th subharmonic 27th harmonic Just major sixth

The musical interval between one note and another six notes away from it WordNet 3.0

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The musical interval between one note and another six notes away from it WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

In music from Western culture, a sixth is a musical interval encompassing six note letter names or staff positions, and the major sixth is one of two commonly occurring sixths. Wikipedia

A musical interval Wikipedia Disambiguation

Musical interval Wikidata

A musical interval of the Western twelve-semitone system consisting of nine semitones and spanning six degrees of the diatonic scale. It is one semitone wider than a minor sixth and enharmonically equivalent to a diminished seventh. Wiktionary

A musical interval. Wiktionary (translation)

The interval between one note and another, five notes higher in the scale, for example C to A, a major sixth, or C to A flat, a minor sixth. (Note that the interval covers six notes counting inclusively, for example C-D-E-F-G-A.). Wiktionary

Interval. Wiktionary (translation)

The major sixth has a pitch ratio close to 27:16. Wiktionary

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interval

sixth

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semitone

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Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary

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minor seventh

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