Interval recognition

The ability to name and reproduce musical intervals From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Interval recognition, the ability to name and reproduce musical intervals, is an important part of ear training, music transcription, musical intonation and sight-reading.

Reference songs

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Some music teachers teach their students relative pitch by having them associate each possible interval with the first interval of a popular song.[1] Such songs are known as "reference songs".[2] However, others have shown that such familiar-melody associations are quite limited in scope, applicable only to the specific scale-degrees found in each melody.[3]

Here are some examples for each interval:

More information Steps/interval, Ascending ...
0/unison
Steps/interval Ascending Descending
1/minor second
CC

CB
2/major second
CD

CB
3/minor third
CE

CA
4/major third
CE

CA
5/perfect fourth
CF

CG
6/tritone
CF

CF
7/perfect fifth
CG

CF
8/minor sixth
CA

CE
9/major sixth
CA

CE
10/minor seventh
CB

CD
11/major seventh
CB

CD
12/octave
CC

CC
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In addition, there are various solmization systems (including solfeggio, sargam, and numerical sight-singing) that assign specific syllables to different notes of the scale. Among other things, this makes it easier to hear how intervals sound in different contexts, such as starting on different notes of the same scale.

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