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Music Intervals Made Easy: Charts and Examples!

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This interval guide provides a comprehensive overview of musical intervals, their types, and qualities. It covers melodic and harmonic intervals, interval quantities, and qualities including major, minor, perfect, augmented, and diminished. The guide also includes visual representations and examples to aid understanding.

Key points:

  • Intervals are the distance between two pitches in music
  • Intervals can be melodic (sounding one after another) or harmonic (sounding simultaneously)
  • Interval quantity is determined by counting the distance between letter names
  • Interval quality distinguishes between intervals of the same quantity
  • Major, minor, perfect, augmented, and diminished are the main interval qualities

Highlight: Understanding intervals is crucial for developing musical skills and theory knowledge.

7/6/2023

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AP Music Theory: Intervals * Should know prev. knowledge on accidentals & en harmonics. the distance between two pitches. interval intervals

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Types and Qualities of Intervals

This page delves deeper into the various types of intervals in music and their qualities, providing a comprehensive music intervals chart for visual reference.

The guide lists the main interval qualities and their corresponding intervals:

  1. Major intervals:

    • Major 2nd
    • Major 3rd
    • Major 6th
    • Major 7th

  2. Minor intervals:

    • Minor 3rd
    • Minor 6th
    • Minor 7th

  3. Perfect intervals:

    • Perfect unison (1)
    • Perfect 4th
    • Perfect 5th
    • Perfect octave (8)

Example: A C to E interval is a major 3rd, while a C to Eb interval is a minor 3rd.

The page includes a detailed major and minor intervals chart as well as an augmented and diminished intervals chart, visually representing the relationships between different interval types on a musical staff.

Highlight: Understanding the qualities of intervals in music is crucial for identifying and constructing various chords and scales.

The guide also explains the relationships between interval qualities:

  • Minor intervals are one half-step smaller than major intervals
  • Augmented intervals are one half-step larger than major or perfect intervals
  • Diminished intervals are one half-step smaller than minor or perfect intervals

Vocabulary: A half-step is the smallest interval between two notes in Western music, equivalent to one semitone.

This comprehensive overview of interval types and qualities provides a solid foundation for students to understand and apply these concepts in their musical studies and practice.

AP Music Theory: Intervals * Should know prev. knowledge on accidentals & en harmonics. the distance between two pitches. interval intervals

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Understanding Musical Intervals

This page introduces the concept of intervals in music and their fundamental characteristics. It covers the basic definitions and classifications of intervals, which are essential for understanding music theory.

Definition: An interval is the distance between two pitches in music.

The page explains that intervals can be classified into two main types:

  1. Melodic intervals: Pitches sounding one after another
  2. Harmonic intervals: Pitches sounding simultaneously

Example: A melodic interval might be heard in a solo melody line, while a harmonic interval would be heard in a chord.

The guide then introduces two key aspects of intervals:

  1. Quantity: Determined by counting the distance between letter names
  2. Quality: Used to distinguish intervals, especially those with the same quantity

Highlight: The quantity of an interval is always counted from the bottom note and includes both the starting and ending notes.

The page provides examples of how to count interval quantities, noting that line-to-line or space-to-space intervals will always be odd numbers, while space-to-line (or vice versa) will be even.

Vocabulary: Enharmonic notes are notes that sound the same but are written differently, such as C# and Db.

The guide emphasizes the importance of interval quality in distinguishing between intervals of the same quantity, introducing the main qualities: major, minor, perfect, augmented, and diminished.

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AP Music Theory

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Music Fundamentals II: Minor Scales and Key Signatures, Melody, Timbre, and Texture

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Music Fundamentals II: Minor Scales and Key Signatures, Melody, Timbre, and Texture

Music Intervals Made Easy: Charts and Examples!

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Michelle

@michylol

·

64 Followers

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This interval guide provides a comprehensive overview of musical intervals, their types, and qualities. It covers melodic and harmonic intervals, interval quantities, and qualities including major, minor, perfect, augmented, and diminished. The guide also includes visual representations and examples to aid understanding.

Key points:

  • Intervals are the distance between two pitches in music
  • Intervals can be melodic (sounding one after another) or harmonic (sounding simultaneously)
  • Interval quantity is determined by counting the distance between letter names
  • Interval quality distinguishes between intervals of the same quantity
  • Major, minor, perfect, augmented, and diminished are the main interval qualities

Highlight: Understanding intervals is crucial for developing musical skills and theory knowledge.

7/6/2023

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AP Music Theory: Intervals * Should know prev. knowledge on accidentals & en harmonics. the distance between two pitches. interval intervals

Types and Qualities of Intervals

This page delves deeper into the various types of intervals in music and their qualities, providing a comprehensive music intervals chart for visual reference.

The guide lists the main interval qualities and their corresponding intervals:

  1. Major intervals:

    • Major 2nd
    • Major 3rd
    • Major 6th
    • Major 7th

  2. Minor intervals:

    • Minor 3rd
    • Minor 6th
    • Minor 7th

  3. Perfect intervals:

    • Perfect unison (1)
    • Perfect 4th
    • Perfect 5th
    • Perfect octave (8)

Example: A C to E interval is a major 3rd, while a C to Eb interval is a minor 3rd.

The page includes a detailed major and minor intervals chart as well as an augmented and diminished intervals chart, visually representing the relationships between different interval types on a musical staff.

Highlight: Understanding the qualities of intervals in music is crucial for identifying and constructing various chords and scales.

The guide also explains the relationships between interval qualities:

  • Minor intervals are one half-step smaller than major intervals
  • Augmented intervals are one half-step larger than major or perfect intervals
  • Diminished intervals are one half-step smaller than minor or perfect intervals

Vocabulary: A half-step is the smallest interval between two notes in Western music, equivalent to one semitone.

This comprehensive overview of interval types and qualities provides a solid foundation for students to understand and apply these concepts in their musical studies and practice.

AP Music Theory: Intervals * Should know prev. knowledge on accidentals & en harmonics. the distance between two pitches. interval intervals

Understanding Musical Intervals

This page introduces the concept of intervals in music and their fundamental characteristics. It covers the basic definitions and classifications of intervals, which are essential for understanding music theory.

Definition: An interval is the distance between two pitches in music.

The page explains that intervals can be classified into two main types:

  1. Melodic intervals: Pitches sounding one after another
  2. Harmonic intervals: Pitches sounding simultaneously

Example: A melodic interval might be heard in a solo melody line, while a harmonic interval would be heard in a chord.

The guide then introduces two key aspects of intervals:

  1. Quantity: Determined by counting the distance between letter names
  2. Quality: Used to distinguish intervals, especially those with the same quantity

Highlight: The quantity of an interval is always counted from the bottom note and includes both the starting and ending notes.

The page provides examples of how to count interval quantities, noting that line-to-line or space-to-space intervals will always be odd numbers, while space-to-line (or vice versa) will be even.

Vocabulary: Enharmonic notes are notes that sound the same but are written differently, such as C# and Db.

The guide emphasizes the importance of interval quality in distinguishing between intervals of the same quantity, introducing the main qualities: major, minor, perfect, augmented, and diminished.

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