Combining Pitches
- Intervals are identified by their size and quality
- When naming intervals, always count the first and last letter names
- Unison: when two parts play the exact same pitch
- Intervals between two pitches sounding simutaneously are harmonic intervals
- Interval Size
- Intervals are identified by their size and quality
- When naming intervals, always count the first and last letter names
- Unison: when two parts play the exact same pitch
- Melodic and Harmonic Intervals
- Intervals between two pitches sounding simutaneously are harmonic intervals
- Compound Intervals
- Compound intervals are larger than an octave
- Though most melodies feature intervals smaller than an octave, some twentieth-century composers are most
liberal with compound intervals in melodic lines
- The exact musical space spanned by an interval is important to the way it sounds
Interval Quality
- When two intervals share the same interval size but not the same number of half steps, they differ in quality
- Perfect intervals WILL NEVER be major or minor
- Inverting Intervals
- Majors will turn to minor :: Minors will turn to Major
- Augmented to diminished and vice versa
- 9 - interval = invervsion
- If a major or perfect is made one chromatic half step larger, it becomes augmented
- If a minor or perfect is made one chromatic half step smaller, it becomes diminished