Musical intervals
These are the musical intervals over two octaves:
Within the first octave:
- Perfect unison: The same note (e.g., C to C).
- Minor second: 1 half step (e.g., C to C#).
- Major second: 2 half steps (e.g., C to D).
- Minor third: 3 half steps (e.g., C to Eb).
- Major third: 4 half steps (e.g., C to E).
- Perfect fourth: 5 half steps (e.g., C to F).
- Tritone/Augmented fourth/Diminished fifth: 6 half steps (e.g., C to F#/Gb).
- Perfect fifth: 7 half steps (e.g., C to G).
- Minor sixth: 8 half steps (e.g., C to Ab).
- Major sixth: 9 half steps (e.g., C to A).
- Minor seventh: 10 half steps (e.g., C to Bb).
- Major seventh: 11 half steps (e.g., C to B).
- Perfect octave: 12 half steps (e.g., C to C’).
Second octave:
- Minor ninth: 13 half steps (e.g., C to C#’ an octave higher).
- Major ninth: 14 half steps (e.g., C to D an octave higher).
- Minor tenth: 15 half steps (e.g., C to Eb an octave higher).
- Major tenth: 16 half steps (e.g., C to E an octave higher).
- Perfect eleventh: 17 half steps (e.g., C to F an octave higher).
- Augmented eleventh/Diminished twelfth: 18 half steps (e.g., C to F#/Gb an octave higher).
- Perfect twelfth: 19 half steps (e.g., C to G an octave higher).
- Minor thirteenth: 20 half steps (e.g., C to Ab an octave higher).
- Major thirteenth: 21 half steps (e.g., C to A an octave higher).
- Minor fourteenth: 22 half steps (e.g., C to Bb an octave higher).
- Major fourteenth: 23 half steps (e.g., C to B an octave higher).
- Double octave: 24 half steps (e.g., C to C” two octaves higher).
Additional notes:
- Intervals can be perfect, minor, major, diminished, or augmented.
- Perfect intervals: Unison, fourth, fifth, octave (and their compound forms like eleventh, twelfth, etc.)
- Diminished intervals: are smaller than perfect or minor intervals.
- Augmented intervals: are larger than perfect or major intervals.
- Intervals larger than an octave are called compound intervals (e.g., ninth, tenth, eleventh).