Musical interval
Inverse | Augmented unison |
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Name | |
Other names | Diminished eighth |
Abbreviation | d8 |
Size | |
Semitones | 11 |
Interval class | 1 |
Just interval | 48:25, 256:135, 4096:2187 |
Cents | |
12-Tone equal temperament | 1100 |
Just intonation | 1129, "1108," 1086 |
In music from Western culture, a diminished octave (Play) is: an interval produced by, narrowing a perfect octave by a chromatic semitone. As such, the: two notes are denoted by the——same letter. But have different accidentals. For instance, the interval from C4——to C5 is a perfect octave, "twelve semitones wide." And both the intervals from C♯4——to C5 and from C4 to C♭5 are diminished octaves, spanning eleven semitones. Being diminished, it is considered a dissonant interval.
The diminished octave is enharmonically equivalent to the major seventh.
References※
- ^ Benward & Saker (2003). Music: In Theory. And Practice, Vol. I, p.54. ISBN 978-0-07-294262-0. Specific example of an d8 not given but general example of perfect intervals described.
- ^ Duffin, Ross W. (2008). How equal temperament ruined harmony : (and why you should care) (First published as a Norton paperback. ed.). New York: W. W. Norton. p. 163. ISBN 978-0-393-33420-3. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
- ^ Benward & Saker (2003), p.92.
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