{"id":66,"date":"2015-03-21T21:54:10","date_gmt":"2015-03-21T21:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.candelalearning.com\/musicappreciation\/?post_type=chapter&p=66"},"modified":"2015-08-26T20:47:31","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T20:47:31","slug":"interacting-with-intervals-and-scales","status":"web-only","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-musicappreciationtheory\/chapter\/interacting-with-intervals-and-scales\/","title":{"raw":"Intervals","rendered":"Intervals"},"content":{"raw":"

Introduction<\/h2>\r\nAn interval is the distance in pitch between two notes. The smallest interval is a semitone. This is the distance between, for example, C and C#.\r\n\r\nAn interval is the relationship between two separate musical pitches. For example, in the melody \"Twinkle Twinkle Little Star,\" the first two notes (the first \"twinkle\") and the second two notes (the second \"twinkle\") are at the interval of one fifth. What this means is that if the first two notes were the pitch C, the second two notes would be the pitch \"G\"\u2014four scale notes, or seven chromatic notes (a perfect fifth), above it.\r\n
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Listen: Intervals<\/h3>\r\nPlease listen to the following audio file to hear the intervals in \"Twinkle Twinkle Little Star\"\r\n\r\n[audio ogg=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images-archive-read-only\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/950\/2016\/02\/26002525\/Twinkle_Twinkle_Little_Star_plain.ogg\"][\/audio]\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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Listen: More Intervals<\/h3>\r\nFor a brief overview, and to hear the sounds of intervals, please click on the link: Intervals<\/a>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n

Common Intervals<\/h2>\r\nThe following are common intervals:\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Root<\/th>\r\nMajor third<\/th>\r\nMinor third<\/th>\r\nFifth<\/th>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
C<\/td>\r\nE<\/td>\r\nE\u266d<\/span><\/td>\r\nG<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
D\u266d<\/span><\/td>\r\nF<\/td>\r\nF\u266d<\/span><\/td>\r\nA\u266d<\/span><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
D<\/td>\r\nF\u266f<\/span><\/td>\r\nF<\/td>\r\nA<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
E\u266d<\/span><\/td>\r\nG<\/td>\r\nG\u266d<\/span><\/td>\r\nB\u266d<\/span><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
E<\/td>\r\nG\u266f<\/span><\/td>\r\nG<\/td>\r\nB<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
F<\/td>\r\nA<\/td>\r\nA\u266d<\/span><\/td>\r\nC<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
F\u266f<\/span><\/td>\r\nA\u266f<\/span><\/td>\r\nA<\/td>\r\nC\u266f<\/span><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
G<\/td>\r\nB<\/td>\r\nB\u266d<\/span><\/td>\r\nD<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
A\u266d<\/span><\/td>\r\nC<\/td>\r\nC\u266d<\/span><\/td>\r\nE\u266d<\/span><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
A<\/td>\r\nC\u266f<\/span><\/td>\r\nC<\/td>\r\nE<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
B\u266d<\/span><\/td>\r\nD<\/td>\r\nD\u266d<\/span><\/td>\r\nF<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
B<\/td>\r\nD\u266f<\/span><\/td>\r\nD<\/td>\r\nF\u266f<\/span><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n

Compound Intervals<\/h2>\r\nIn the musical scale, there are twelve pitches; the names A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. When the intervals surpass the perfect Octave (12 semitones), these intervals are called compound intervals<\/i>, which include particularly the 9th, 11th, and 13th intervals\u2014widely used in jazz and blues music.\r\n\r\nCompound intervals are formed and named as follows:\r\n