A major second, whole tone, or whole step is one of three commonly occurring musical intervals that span two diatonic scale degrees; the others being the minor second and the augmented second. In Music theory, the word inversion has several meanings There are inverted chords, inverted melodies, inverted intervals, and A minor seventh ( is the smaller of two commonly occurring Musical intervals that span seven Diatonic scale degrees A semitone, also called a half step or a half tone, is the smallest Musical interval commonly used in Western tonal music and it is considered the In Musical set theory, an interval class (usual abbreviation ic) is the shortest distance in Pitch class space between two unordered Pitch classes In music just intonation is any Musical tuning in which the frequencies of Notes are related by Ratios of Whole numbers Any interval The cent is a logarithmic unit of measure used for musical intervals. Equal temperament is a Musical temperament, or a system of tuning in which every pair of adjacent notes has an identical Frequency ratio. In music just intonation is any Musical tuning in which the frequencies of Notes are related by Ratios of Whole numbers Any interval In Music theory, the term interval describes the relationship between the pitches of two Notes Intervals may be described as vertical In Music theory, a diatonic scale (from the Greek διατονικος, meaning " through tones" also known as the heptatonia prima and A semitone, also called a half step or a half tone, is the smallest Musical interval commonly used in Western tonal music and it is considered the An augmented second is Enharmonically equivalent to a Minor third ( in Equal temperament, but is not the same interval in other meantone tunings The major second is abbreviated as M2 and its inversion is the minor seventh. In Music theory, the word inversion has several meanings There are inverted chords, inverted melodies, inverted intervals, and A minor seventh ( is the smaller of two commonly occurring Musical intervals that span seven Diatonic scale degrees It occurs naturally between the 1st and 2nd degrees of a major scale, as the tonic rising melodically to the supertonic (the familiar Do-Re sung in moveable-do solfege). In Music theory, the major scale or Ionian scale is one of the diatonic scales It is made up of seven distinct Notes plus an eighth The tonic is the first note of a musical scale in the tonal method of Musical composition. In Music or Music theory, the supertonic is the second degree or note of a Diatonic scale (in other words immediately "above" In Music, solfège ('soʊlfɛʒ also called solfeggio, sol-fa, or solfa) is a Pedagogical Solmization technique for the

In just intonation, the major second can correspond to at least two different frequency ratios: 9/8 (the major tone), and 10/9 (the minor tone), which differ by the syntonic comma. In music just intonation is any Musical tuning in which the frequencies of Notes are related by Ratios of Whole numbers Any interval In Music theory, the syntonic comma, also known as the comma of Didymus or Ptolemaic comma, is a small interval between In meantone temperament and 12 tone equal temperament these two intervals are approximated by the same interval. Meantone temperament is a Musical temperament, which is a system of Musical tuning. Some equal temperaments with larger divisions of the octave, such as 34-ET, 41-ET, 53-ET, and 72-ET distinguish between these two intervals. In musical theory 34 equal temperament, also referred to as 34-tet 34-edo or 34-et is the tempered tuning derived by dividing the octave into 34 equal-sized steps In music 41 equal temperament, often abbreviated 41-tET 41-EDO or 41-ET is the tempered scale derived by dividing the octave into 41 equally-sized steps In music 53 equal temperament, called 53-TET 53- EDO, or 53-ET is the tempered scale derived by dividing the octave into fifty-three equally large steps In music 72 equal temperament, called twelfth-tone 72-tet 72-edo, or 72-et is the tempered scale derived by dividing the octave into twelfth-tones or in other

The major second is considered one of the more dissonant intervals of the diatonic scale. In Music theory, a diatonic scale (from the Greek διατονικος, meaning " through tones" also known as the heptatonia prima and It is common in many different musical systems, including Arabic music, Turkish music and music of the Balkans, among others. Arabic music or Arab music ( Arabic: موسيقى عربية;) includes several genres and styles of Music ranging from Arabic classical The music of Turkey includes diverse elements ranging from Central Asian folk music and music from Ottoman Empire dominions such as Persian music, It occurs in both diatonic and pentatonic scales. A pentatonic scale is a musical scale with five pitches per Octave in contrast to an heptatonic (seven note scale such as the Major scale

Major Second (equal temperament)

The file plays middle C, followed by D (a tone 200 cents sharper than C), followed by both tones together. C or Do is the first Note of the fixed-Do Solfege. In Western Music, the expression " Middle C " refers to the note

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See also

• Whole tone scale
• Pythagorean interval
• List of meantone intervals