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perfect fourth

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  • noun A musical interval of the Western twelve-semitone system consisting of five semitones and spanning four degrees of the diatonic scale. It is enharmonically equivalent to an augmented third.

Etymologies

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The word "perfect" refers to the fact that so-called "perfect intervals" are neither major nor minor.

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