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=Chapter 6 Vocabulary=

**Augmented Interval** – A major or perfect interval that is made one chromatic half step larger. **Compound Interval** – An interval in which the pitches are more than an octave apart. **Consonance** – Intervals that have been characterized as pleasing to the ear. **Diminished Interval** – A minor or perfect interval that is made one chromatic half step smaller. **Dissonance** – Intervals that have been characterized as tonally active, jarring, or unpleasant. **Generic Pitch Interval** – The distance between the pitches that form an interval by measuring the number of steps between their letter names. **Imperfect Consonance** – The third and six intervals. **Interval Class** – All pitch intervals that can be made from a pair of pitch classes. **Interval Quality** – The difference of size between two generic pitch intervals with the same interval number but different size.
 * Inversionally Related Interval** – A pair of intervals made from the same scale degrees but reversed.

**Perfect Consonance** –Unison, perfect fifth, and octave intervals, known for their pure acoustic qualities.

**Pitch Interval –** The musical space between different pitches. **Tritone –** The interval that has three whole tones between the pitches, between the perfect fourth and fifth, that can be described as a diminished fifth or augmented fourth. **Unison –** Another name for interval 1, or an interval made with the same pitch.