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diminished third
In classical music from Western culture, a diminished third ( ) is the musical interval produced by narrowing a minor third by a chromatic semitone. For instance, the interval from A to C is a minor third, three semitones wide, and both the intervals from A to C, and from A to C are diminished thirds, two semitones wide. : { \override Score.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f \relative c { \time 4/4 \set Score.tempoHideNote = ##t \tempo 1 = 20 1 } } Being diminished, it is considered a dissonant interval.
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In classical music from Western culture, a diminished third ( ) is the musical interval produced by narrowing a minor third by a chromatic semitone. For instance, the interval from A to C is a minor third, three semitones wide, and both the intervals from A to C, and from A to C are diminished thirds, two semitones wide. : { \override Score.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f \relative c { \time 4/4 \set Score.tempoHideNote = ##t \tempo 1 = 20 1 } } Being diminished, it is considered a dissonant interval.
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