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    This document discusses musical intervals and their types. It explains that there are 5 types of intervals: major, minor, augmented, diminished, and compound. It focuses on major and minor intervals, relating them to the major and minor scales. It provides examples of common intervals like the major 3rd and perfect 5th. It also gives examples of intervals in the key of C and how they would be notated in the key of G.

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    This document discusses musical intervals and their types. It explains that there are 5 types of intervals: major, minor, augmented, diminished, and compound. It focuses on major and minor intervals, relating them to the major and minor scales. It provides examples of common intervals like the major 3rd and perfect 5th. It also gives examples of intervals in the key of C and how they would be notated in the key of G.

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    This document discusses musical intervals and their types. It explains that there are 5 types of intervals: major, minor, augmented, diminished, and compound. It focuses on major and minor intervals, relating them to the major and minor scales. It provides examples of common intervals like the major 3rd and perfect 5th. It also gives examples of intervals in the key of C and how they would be notated in the key of G.

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    The passage discusses different types of musical intervals, their definitions, and examples in the key of C.

    The 5 types of intervals are major, minor, augmented, diminished, and compound.

    Major and minor intervals are dealt with by relating them to major and minor scales.

    BASIC INTERVALS:

    Intervals are how the gaps between notes are measured. (Nothing scary!)

    


    There are FIVE types of Intervals:

    • Major (Happy)


    • Minor (Sad)


    • Augmented (Stretched by a Half Step)


    • Diminished (Squished by a Half Step)


    • Compound (Over an Octave, minus 7)


    We will focus on Major and Minor, to begin with. 



    

    These are dealt with by relating them to your Major and Minor Scales.

    Dealing with the white notes on the piano:



    

    (This may help:)

    !
    Basic Intervals

    YouTube clip on Intervals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5txFkdX4_c

    Interval Name Ascending Descending

    Unison SAMESIES SAMESIES

    Minor 2nd JAWS Für Elise

    Major 2nd Happy Birthday 3 Blind Mice

    Minor 3rd So Long, Farewell Oh, Say Can You See

    Major 3rd When the Saints Opening of Beethoven’s 5th

    Perfect 4th Amazing Grace London’s Burning

    Perfect 5th Starwars/2001: A Space


    Odyssey

    Minor 6th The Entertainer

    Major 6th My Bonny Lies Over the Ocean
 Phantom of the Opera
    NBC

    Minor 7th Somewhere

    Major 7th Maria

    Octave Somewhere Over the Rainbow Beethoven’s 9th (@nd Movt.)

    In the key of C:

    Interval Name Example of Interval in the Key of What would it be in the Key of
    C G?

    Unison C-C

    Minor 2nd C - D♭

    Major 2nd C-D

    Minor 3rd C - E♭

    Major 3rd C-E

    Perfect 4th C-F

    Perfect 5th C-G

    Minor 6th C - A♭

    Major 6th C-A

    Minor 7th C - B♭

    Major 7th C-B

    Octave C - C (8 notes above)


    SNEAK PEEK:


    • ADVANCED INTERVALS:
    AUGMENTED - this means made larger - in musical terms, by a Half
    Step. So, an AUGMENTED FOURTH would be:

    • C - F♯
    • Likewise, an AUGMENTED FIFTH would be C - G♯.

    • DIMINISHED - this means made smaller, again by a Half Step. So,


    start with the ORIGINAL interval. 


    • A DIMINISHED FIFTH would be C - G♭ 



    (NOT F♯ - because F is definitely still, technically, a FOURTH -
    Watch out for this.)

    • A DIMINISHED FOURTH would be C - F♭ - what is special about


    this?

    (It sounds the same as E - but on a mathematical and theoretical level, it
    is still and F♭.)
    

    


    With this logic, you can EXTEND your MAJOR and MINOR
    INTERVALS!

    COMPOUND INTERVALS are for when the interval is over an octave -


    A major 10th becomes a Compound 3rd - Take away seven from the
    original Interval.

    We will visit these later - don’t panic!



    

    

    


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