Septimal diatonic semitone

Major diatonic semitone

Inverse	major seventh
Name
Other names	Septimal diatonic semitone
Abbreviation
Size
Semitones	1
Interval class	1
Just interval	15:14
Cents
Equal temperament	100
24 equal temperament	100
Just intonation	119.44

Major diatonic semitone on C  Play (help·info).

Major diatonic semitone on C.

In music, a major diatonic semitone^[1] or septimal diatonic semitone is the interval 15:14  Play (help·info). It is about 119.44 cents. The major diatonic semitone may be derived from the harmonic series as the interval between the fourteenth and fifteenth harmonics.

The major diatonic semitone equals a just diatonic semitone  Play (help·info) (16:15, or 111.73 cents) plus a septimal kleisma (the interval 225:224, or 7.71 cents).

See also minor diatonic semitone (or undevicimal diatonic semitone, 17:16).

Sources

1. ^ Haluska, Jan (2003). The Mathematical Theory of Tone Systems, p.xxiv. ISBN 0824747143.

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