A distance between two notes The interval between to adjacent keys on a piano is a half-step (for instance, B to C) The interval between two keys that have one key in between them is a whole step, or two half-steps (for instance, C to D) Three half-steps are a minor third, four are a major third, and so on Some intervals have traditional tunes associated with them
A space between things; a void space intervening between any two objects; as, an interval between two houses or hills
the distance between two notes, usually designated by a quantity (or generic number name) and quality (M, m, d, A); two consecutive notes form a melodic interval and two simultaneous notes form a harmonic interval
In music, an interval is the difference (a ratio or logarithmic measure) in pitch between two notes and often refers to those two pitches themselves (otherwise known as a dyad)
a set of integral points between two endpoints This domain is frequently represented using mathematical interval notation [a,b] even though it contains only the integral points, e g , a, a+1, a+2, …, b It is also generalized to an n-dimensional interval as the direct product of one-dimensional intervals Many containers' domains consist of these sets of ordered tuples See Also: domain, stride, range
the pitch distance between two notes Intervals are sometimes named by reference to a major or minor scale: thus the interval of a fifth is the distance between the first and the fifth notes in either of the scales ( = 7 semitones); a major third is the distance between the first and third notes of the major scale ( = 4 semitones); a minor sixth is the distance between the first and sixth notes of the minor scale ( = 8 semitones) In addition, the term "minor second" is reserved for the interval of a semitone
Either of the two breaks, at lunch and tea, between the three sessions of a days play
A tract of low ground between hills, or along the banks of a stream, usually alluvial land, enriched by the overflowings of the river, or by fertilizing deposits of earth from the adjacent hills