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    In music, the major fourth and minor fifth, also known as the paramajor fourth and paraminor fifth, are intervals from the quarter-tone scale, named by...
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    of as descending by a fifth to F, or ascending by a fourth to F. Each pitch can serve as the tonic of a major or minor key, and each of these keys will...
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    the fourth and fifth may be interchangeable or indeterminate. The perfect fifth is a basic element in the construction of major and minor triads, and their...
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    degrees of a major scale are called major. The major third may be derived from the harmonic series as the interval between the fourth and fifth harmonics...
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  • sounds a fourth higher. (The basset horn also often sounds an octave and a fifth lower.) The scale degree chords of F major are: Tonic – F major Supertonic...
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  • not both, and the different key signatures add flats or sharps according to the order shown in the circle of fifths. Each major and minor key has an...
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    interval. Its inversion is the diminished fourth, and its enharmonic equivalent is the minor sixth. The augmented fifth only began to make an appearance at...
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    occurrence is between the fifth and upper root of all major and minor triads and their extensions. An example of a perfect fourth is the beginning of the...
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  • and seventh (and the compound intervals based on them) may be major or minor (or, rarely, diminished or augmented). Unisons, fourths, fifths, and octaves...
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    only thirds but also fourths and fifths, supplementing tertian majorminor harmony with quartal and quintal harmonies. Quartal and quintal harmonies are...
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