Music notation glossary · Intervals
Seventh
ten or eleven semitones
In the score
What it means
The minor seventh (ten, C–B flat) sits in the dominant seventh chord and pushes onward; the major seventh (eleven, C–B) sounds soft and floating in maj7 chords.
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