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minor seventh

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minor seventh (plural minor sevenths)

(music) A musical interval of the Western twelve-semitone system consisting of ten semitones and spanning seven degrees of the diatonic scale. It is one semitone narrower than a major seventh and enharmonically equivalent to an augmented sixth.
The minor seventh has a pitch ratio close to 57:32.

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