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Music notation glossary · Intervals

Seventh

ten or eleven semitones

In the score

Engraved by Verovio 6.3.0-425dd7b

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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