Fourth (music)

In music a fourth is an interval spanning four staff positions in the musical notation common in Western culture. Specific fourth intervals include: * Perfect fourth, the fourth spanning five semitones * Diminished fourth, a perfect fourth narrowed by a chromatic semitone, thus spanning four semitones * Augmented fourth or tritone, an interval of three adjacent whole tones (six semitones) In addition, fourth in music may refer to:

Fourth (music)

In music a fourth is an interval spanning four staff positions in the musical notation common in Western culture. Specific fourth intervals include: * Perfect fourth, the fourth spanning five semitones * Diminished fourth, a perfect fourth narrowed by a chromatic semitone, thus spanning four semitones * Augmented fourth or tritone, an interval of three adjacent whole tones (six semitones) In addition, fourth in music may refer to: