Minor second
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| Inverse | major seventh | |
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| Name | ||
| Other names | diatonic semitone | |
| Abbreviation | m2 | |
| Size | ||
| Semitones | 1 | |
| Interval class | 1 | |
| Just interval | 16:15 | |
| Cents | ||
| Equal temperament | 100 | |
| 24 equal temperament | 100 | |
| Just intonation | 112 | |
In modern Western tonal music theory a minor second is the interval between two notes on adjacent staff positions, or having adjacent note letters, whose alterations cause them to be one semitone or half-step apart, such as B and C or C and D♭.[1]
The 16:15 just minor second arises in the C major scale between B & C and E & F, and is, "the sharpest dissonance found in the scale."[2] 
Play B & C (help·info)
Its inversion is a major seventh.
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References [edit]
- ^ "Second". Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Retrieved August 2011. (subscription needed)
- ^ Paul, Oscar (1885). A manual of harmony for use in music-schools and seminaries and for self-instruction, p.165. Theodore Baker, trans. G. Schirmer.
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