minor hexachord, hexachordon minus, lesser hexachord
Abbreviation
m6
Size
Semitones
8
Interval class
4
Just interval
8:5, 128:81, 11:7
Cents
12-Tone equal temperament
800
Just intonation
814, 792, 782
In Western classical music, a minor sixth is a musical interval encompassing six staff positions (see Interval number for more details), and is one of two commonly occurring sixths (the other one being the major sixth). It is qualified as minor because it is the smaller of the two: the minor sixth spans eight semitones, the major sixth nine. For example, the interval from A to F is a minor sixth, as the note F lies eight semitones above A, and there are six staff positions from A to F. Diminished and augmented sixths span the same number of staff positions, but consist of a different number of semitones (seven and ten respectively).
In Western classical music, a minorsixth is a musical interval encompassing six staff positions (see Interval number for more details), and is one of...
sixth chord in popular music is a short way of saying added sixth chord. There are three main types of added sixth chords: major sixth, minorsixth and...
Related modes below). A natural minor scale (or Aeolian mode) is a diatonic scale that is built by starting on the sixth degree of its relative major scale...
Sixth interval (music)s: major sixth, a musical interval minorsixth, a musical interval diminished sixth, an interval produced by narrowing a minor sixth...
Neapolitan sixth chord. In C major or C minor, for example, a Neapolitan sixth chord in first inversion contains an interval of a minorsixth between F...
sixth. It is a sixth because it encompasses six note letter names (C, D, E, F, G, A) and six staff positions. It is a major sixth, not a minorsixth,...
narrower than a minor third have, thus far, had limited interest. Two regular-tunings based on sixths, having intervals of minorsixths (eight semitones)...
melodic minor scale only by raising the third degree to a major third. The double harmonic major scale has a minor second and a minorsixth. It is the...
parallel minor scale. There are three main types of augmented sixth chords, commonly known as the Italian sixth, the French sixth, and the German sixth. Though...
thirteenth harmonic ( 13 /8), at two-fifths of a semitone sharper than a minorsixth, is almost as inaccurate. Although this means that the fraction 13 /11...
G and B strings. For example, if the note E (the open sixth string) is played over the A minor chord, then the chord would be [0 0 2 2 1 0]. This has...
inversion is the diminished fourth, and its enharmonic equivalent is the minorsixth. The augmented fifth only began to make an appearance at the beginning...
naturally by a minor second. It is the strong tendency to resolve in this way that properly identifies this interval as being an augmented sixth rather than...
and a just major seventh is tuned 15:8. The minor flat sixth chord (minor triad with an added minorsixth) is an inversion of this chord. In 1888, the...
compromises in meantone temperament. The difference between the minor third and the tone is the minor semitone or limma of 256/243. The difference between the...
and conversely F major is the relative major of D minor. The tonic of the relative minor is the sixth scale degree of the major scale, while the tonic...
second, half Or, in relation to the tonic note minor second, major third, perfect fourth and fifth, minorsixth, major seventh, octave However, this scale...
quarter tone. This just ratio is also the difference between a minor third (6:5) and septimal minor third (7:6). Composer Ben Johnston, to accommodate the just...
common to assess perfect fifths and fourths, major and minor thirds, and major and minorsixths, often playing the intervals in an ascending or descending...
octave, as well as the major and minor second, major and minor third, and ascending minorsixth. The ascending minorsixth must be immediately followed by...