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Definition of Musical interval
1. Noun. The difference in pitch between two notes.
Generic synonyms: Musical Notation
Specialized synonyms: Step, Tone, Whole Step, Whole Tone, Half Step, Semitone, Quarter Tone, Quarter-tone, Musical Octave, Octave, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh
Definition of Musical interval
1. Noun. The distance between two notes on the diatonic scale. ¹
2. Noun. An interlude in some performance during which music is played. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Musical Interval
Literary usage of Musical interval
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Student's Manual of a Laboratory Course in Physical Measurements by Wallace Clement Sabine (1906)
"musical interval: SCALE The musical scale consists of a series of eight notes
whose pitch ... When the musical interval of two notes is simple, that is, ..."
2. A Student's Manual of a Laboratory Course in Physical Measurements by Wallace Clement Sabine (1906)
"musical interval: SCALE The musical scale consists of a series of eight notes
whose pitch numbers bear to each other comparatively simple ratios. ..."
3. A Text-book of Physics by Louis Bevier Spinney (1911)
"The musical interval between two tones is the ratio of their frequencies, the
frequency of the higher tone being taken as the numerator of the fraction. ..."
4. Harvard Psychological Studies by Harvard Psychological Laboratory (1906)
"The first evident fact for both average curves of Plate V is that the maximum
pleasure does not coincide with a musical interval, but comes with an interval ..."
5. A Text-book of Physics by Exum Percival Lewis, Charles Elwood Mendenhall, Albert Pruden Carman, Robert Kenning McClung, William Hallock (1912)
"musical interval.—Two musical sounds differing in pitch are said to be ...
Thus it is evident that musical interval is a question of the ratio of the rates ..."
6. Some Autumn Days in Iowa by Frederick John Lazell (1911)
"... you — "Chick-a-dee-dee-dee," and sometimes, in the bright mornings, a clear,
musical "La sol," perhaps the most perfect musical interval in bird- song. ..."
7. Elements of Wave Motion Relating to Sound and Light: A Text Book Prepared by Peter Smith Michie (1882)
"The measure of the musical interval represented by the ratio — is the log -• This
arises from the fact that if we consider q 6 q ?} J} any three tones whose ..."
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