Jan 19, 2015 · Every Fifth Interval with 7 semitones between the bass note and high note is referred to as a " perfect " fifth. Same from D to A (perfect fifth) E to B (perfect fifth) F to C is a perfect fifth, as is G to D and A to E. But if you look at a piano and count all the white and black keys between B and F (a 5th interval) there are only 6.

Sep 25, 2015 · What is the origin of the term perfect fifth and how does it relate to the length of a string and, specifically, the length of a guitar string. I crudely measured my guitar string and found that the "perfect fifth" fret is about 1/4th the length of the entire string.

Sep 4, 2013 · The fifth "ghost soprano" seems to be a different use of overtones where the quartet voices enhance and enlarge specific pitches producing the sound appearance of a fifth voice.

Jul 16, 2020 · I'm looking for a name for the minor scale with a flattened fifth note. WHWWHWW -> WHWHWWW C min: C D Eb F G Ab Bb; C ???: C D Eb F Gb Ab Bb The closest my searching has come to an answer was ...

Apr 20, 2017 · Lovers of the slendro scale (roughly 5-tone equal temperament, at least in Java) do NOT agree that the perfect 5th is "the nicest interval". Careful when talking about interval preferences with fans of gamelan (ethnic music of Indonesia, uses the slendro scale).

Jul 31, 2014 · An octave is twice (or half) the frequency of the first note. The second group includes the perfect fifth or perfect fourth. Actually, traditionally the fourth was not considered consonant. However, since the fifth is perfect, and the inversion of the fifth is a fourth, then the fourth is exactly the same thing as a fifth and must also be perfect.

Apr 18, 2020 · This is just a historical convention for naming musical intervals, which sort of originated by counting both endpoints in an interval. For example, a musical "fifth" (frequency ratio 3:2) is the interval created by two notes that are four steps apart. So, C-D-E-F-G creates a fifth between C and G.

May 17, 2023 · The perfect fifth has more partials that align and sounds more consonant as a result. For comparison, let's also look at another consonant interval, the major third (with a ratio of 5/4) and its less-consonant inverse, the minor sixth (with a ratio of 8/5):

Now my musical ear is developed pretty well but I think this rule is a bit too vague since what one thinks is OK, the other may disagree. So my question: What exactly are the rules stating whether hidden fifths/octaves are acceptable or not? This is a little exercise I did yesterday.

Aug 24, 2021 · "The source of the discrepancy should be clear" Well, first things first, the discrepancy in question is that in musical terms, a third plus a third is a fifth. As the article mentions, 3 plus 3 equals 5 in interval-speak, which is unlike the usual arithmetic idea of addition.