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augmented fourths

augmented fourths is the plural of augmented fourth.

Meaning of augmented fourth

Noun

augmented fourth (plural augmented fourths)

  1. A type of tritone in musical composition. It spans four diatonic scale degrees like a perfect fourth but with an extension of a chromatic semitone. The number of diatonic degrees it spans is what distinguishes it from a diminished fifth.
    • e.g. C - F is a perfect fourth, C - F# is an augmented fourth, and C - F♭ is a diminished fourth.

Questions about augmented fourths

What is augmented fourths the plural of?
Augmented fourths is the plural of augmented fourth.

Words near augmented fourths in the dictionary

  1. augmented assignment
  2. augmented assignments
  3. augmented fifth
  4. augmented fifths
  5. augmented fourth
  6. augmented fourths
  7. augmented interval
  8. augmented intervals
  9. augmented matrix
  10. augmented ninth
  11. augmented ninths

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