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minor sixth
noun[ C ]
music specializeduk /ˌmaɪ.nə ˈsɪksθ/ us /ˌmaɪ.nɚ ˈsɪksθ/
a musical interval(= amount by which one note is higher or lower than another) of eight semitones (= the smallest difference in sound between two notes that are next to each other in the Western musical scale):
The fifth is expanded into a minor sixth in the first soprano.
You would not want to resolve a melodic line onto the minor sixth interval.
The musical teaching material is carefully staged, so that intervals of major and minor sixths do not appear until later in the course.
When I was introduced to jazz and Latin music, I started discovering major sevenths and minor sixths and complicated jazz chords.
The opening phrase commences with an upward minor sixth leap.
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