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![]() It can then have 2 names because it can either be considered as the left note gone higher (sharper - #) or the right note gone lower (flatter - b). That black key is visually and melodically a middle point between the two notes that surround it. That's why it is possible to fit a black key between them. Even though the voice, the string instruments and even wind instruments to some extent, can create intervals smaller than a semitone, those smaller intervals aren’t usually represented in the scales we normally use in western music.īack to the keyboard: with the exception of the E-F and B-C intervals, the interval between 2 consecutive white keys will always be a whole tone. That happens because the interval between these notes is already a semitone, so there is no 'auditory space' to fit another note, as most of our western instruments (and our ears consequently) are usually tuned to have the semitone as the minimum interval between 2 musical sounds. If you look at a piano keyboard, you’ll see that between E-F and B-C there is no black key. Let us look at a C major scale:īetween E-F and B-C we have a semitone while between all other consecutive notes we have a whole tone. Between all other consecutive notes of the major scale we have a whole tone. ![]() The smallest distance normally used is 1/2 tone (or semitone), and that’s the difference between the 3rd and the 4th and between the 7th and the 8th notes of the major scale. In the same way we measure height or weight, for instance, we can measure the interval between two notes. In music we usually refer to this 'distance' between two notes as an interval. Because it is so familiar to us we don’t even feel this irregularity in the distance between its notes. ![]() The vast majority of the music heard in western countries is based on it, or on other scales derived from it.
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