User:Hyacinth/Interval tables

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Interval (music). User:Hyacinth/How to use tables

Contents 1 Quality 2 Consonance and dissonance 3 Charts 4 Diatonic intervals TOC

[edit] Quality

Simple intervals may have the following tonal/diatonic quality
Perfect	Unison, fourth, fifth, and octave
Major and minor	Second, third, sixth, and seventh
Augmented and diminished	All

[edit] Consonance and dissonance

Simple diatonic intervals harmonic or vertical stability (1600-1900)
Consonant	Unison, minor and major third, perfect fourth, perfect fifth, minor and major sixth
Dissonant	Minor and major second, diminished fourth, tritone, minor and major seventh

---

Simple diatonic intervals stability scale (1600-1900)
<--Most consonant								Most dissonant-->
Unison	octave	perfect fifth	perfect fourth	major third	minor third	major sixth	minor sixth	minor seventh	major seventh	major second	minor second	tritone

---

[edit] Charts

from Interval (music) (User:Wahoofive):

# semitones	Interval class	# cents in equal temperament	Generic interval	Common diatonic name	Comparable just interval	# cents in just interval	Just compared to equal tempered interval
0	0	0	0	perfect unison	1:1	0	0
1	1	100	1	minor second	16:15	112	12 cents larger
2	2	200	1	major second	9:8	204	4 cents larger
3	3	300	2	minor third	6:5	316	16 cents larger
4	4	400	2	major third	5:4	386	14 cents smaller
5	5	500	3	perfect fourth	4:3	498	2 cents smaller
6	6	600	3 or 4	tritone	17:12	603	3 cents larger
7	5	700	4	perfect fifth	3:2	702	2 cents larger
8	4	800	5	minor sixth	8:5	814	14 cents larger
9	3	900	5	major sixth	5:3	884	16 cents smaller
10	2	1000	6	minor seventh	16:9	996	4 cents smaller
11	1	1100	6	major seventh	15:8	1088	12 cents smaller
12	0	1200	0	perfect octave	2:1	1200	0

[edit] Diatonic intervals TOC

Template:Diatonic intervals:

Other diatonic intervals
unison | minor second | major second | minor third | major third | perfect fourth | tritone | perfect fifth | minor sixth | major sixth | minor seventh | major seventh | octave

As it appears on perfect fifth:

Perfect fifth
# semitones	Interval class	# cents in equal temperament	Most common diatonic name	Comparable just interval	# cents in just interval	Just interval vs. equal-tempered interval
7	5	700	perfect fifth	3:2	702	2 cents larger
Diatonic intervals edit Perfect : unison (0) | fourth (5) | fifth (7) | octave (12) Major : second (2) | third (4) | sixth (9) | seventh (11) Minor : second (1) | third (3)| sixth (8) | seventh (10) Augmented : unison (1) | second (3) | third (5) | fourth (6) | fifth (8) | sixth (10) | seventh (12) Diminished : second (0) | third (2) | fourth (4) | fifth (6) | sixth (7) | seventh (9) | octave (11) semitones of equal temperament are given in brackets