In Musique a sixth is the interval which separates two distant notes from six degree S, that is to say the interval complementary to a third compared to the octave - one also speaks about “Renversement of the third”.

Just as one distinguishes the third major and the minor third , one distinguishes also, and respectively, the minor sixth and the major sixth.

Otherwise expressed: if, on the basis of a unspecified note, one rises successively major third, then of a minor sixth - or in the inverse order, or while exchanging minor and major -, the note obtained is with the octave of the initial note: for example, major third C - semi + minor sixth mid- C = octave C - C .

Thus, the third C - semi being a major third, the sixth mid- C is a minor sixth. Or, the third C - semi $\backslash \; flat$ being a minor third, the sixth semi $\backslash \; flat$ - C is a major sixth.

The natural report/ratio of Fréquence S of two notes separated by an interval from major sixth is from 5 to 3, and 8 to 5 in the case of the minor sixth. In the moderate Range, these values are faded.

Examples to be listened

Notation

Sixte minor semi-C

Sixte major C it

See too

• theoretical and technical Glossary of the Western music

• Interval

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