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Septimal diatonic semitone

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Inverse
  
major seventh

Interval class
  
1

Equal temperament
  
100

Semitones
  
1

Just interval
  
15:14

Septimal diatonic semitone

Other names
  
Septimal diatonic semitone

In music, a septimal diatonic semitone (or major diatonic semitone) is the interval 15:14  Play . It is about 119.44 cents. The septimal diatonic semitone may be derived from the harmonic series as the interval between the fourteenth and fifteenth harmonics (B7b and B).

The septimal diatonic semitone equals a just diatonic semitone  Play  (16:15, or 111.73 cents) plus a septimal kleisma (the interval 225:224, or 7.71 cents).

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Septimal diatonic semitone Wikipedia