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Major third
Meaning
Noun
●
In Music:
A
musical interval
of the Western twelve-semitone system
consisting of
four
semitones
and
spanning
three
degrees
of the
diatonic scale
. Major
scales
are so
named
because of the
major third
interval
between the
tonic
and
mediant
of
a major
tonic
triad
. It is
enharmonically
equivalent
to a
diminished
four
th.
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