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Music notation glossary · Intervals

Fifth

seven semitones

In the score

Engraved by Verovio 6.3.0-425dd7b

What it means

The perfect fifth, C–G — after the octave the most stable interval there is. Twelve fifths stacked lead through every key back to the starting note: the circle of fifths.

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