Consonance and dissonance in various musical scales

 

Listen to difference between consonance and dissonance:

        Hearing exercise for simple tones

        Hearing exercise for complex tones

 

Intervals:

name

abbreviation

Interval in semitones

Equal temperament

Minor Second

m2

1

Example

Major Second

M2

2

Example

Minor Third

m3

3

Example

Major Third

M3

4

Example

Perfect Fourth

P4

5

Example

Tritone, augmented fourth, dimished fifth

 

6

Example

Perfect fifth

P5

7

Example

Minor sixth

m6

8

Example

Major sixth

M6

9

Example

Minor seventh

m7

10

Example

Major seventh

M7

11

Example

Octave

 

12

Example

Circle of fifths:

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