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- noun A
musical interval of the Western twelve-semitone system consisting of fivesemitones and spanning four degrees of thediatonic scale . It isenharmonically equivalent to anaugmented 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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