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The minor sixth is one of consonances of common practice music, along with the unison, octave, perfect fifth, major and minor thirds, major sixth and (sometimes) the perfect fourth. In the common practice period, sixths were considered interesting and dynamic consonances along with their inverses the thirds, but in medieval times they were ...
Some music teachers teach their students relative pitch by having them associate each possible interval with the first interval of a popular song. [1] Such songs are known as "reference songs". [2]
The size of an interval between two notes may be measured by the ratio of their frequencies.When a musical instrument is tuned using a just intonation tuning system, the size of the main intervals can be expressed by small-integer ratios, such as 1:1 (), 2:1 (), 5:3 (major sixth), 3:2 (perfect fifth), 4:3 (perfect fourth), 5:4 (major third), 6:5 (minor third).
Other variants of augmented sixth chords can be found in the repertoire, and are sometimes given whimsical geographical names. For example: 4– ♭ 6–7– ♯ 2; (F–A ♭ –B–D ♯) is called by one source an Australian sixth, and 1- 2 - ♯ 4 - ♯ 6 (C - D - F ♯ - A ♯) sometimes called the Japanese sixth, Blackadder, or Ikisugi chord.
The standard tempered fifth has a frequency ratio of 2 7/12:1 (or about 1.498307077:1), approximately two cents narrower than a justly tuned fifth. Ascending by twelve justly tuned fifths fails to close the circle by an excess of approximately 23.46 cents , roughly a quarter of a semitone , an interval known as the Pythagorean comma .
In quarter-comma meantone, the frequency ratio for the fifth is 4 √ 5 , which is about 3.42157 cents flatter than an equal tempered 700 cents, (or exactly one twelfth of a diesis) and so the wolf is about 737.637 cents, or 35.682 cents sharper than a perfect fifth of ratio exactly 3:2, and this is the original "howling" wolf fifth.
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