Imperfect consonance intervals

Imperfect intervals are intervals which are not as pure as the perfect intervals. They fall into two groups depending on their accepted consonance/dissonance quality: consonant imperfect intervals: Major/minor third, Major/minor sixth.

1. What is a imperfect consonance?
2. Which intervals are dissonances?
3. Which musical interval is the most consonant?
4. What are the 3 types of music intervals?

What is a imperfect consonance?

Also found in: Wikipedia. (Mus.) chords like the third and sixth, whose ratios are less simple than those of the fifth and forth.

Which intervals are dissonances?

The intervals that are considered to be dissonant are the minor second, the major second, the minor seventh, the major seventh, and particularly the tritone, which is the interval in between the perfect fourth and perfect fifth. These intervals are all considered to be somewhat unpleasant or tension-producing.

Which musical interval is the most consonant?

A common ranking, most to least consonant, is P8, P5, P4, m7, M6, M3, m3, M2, m2. For one thing, how do you measure dissonance?

What are the 3 types of music intervals?

There are five different types of quality of interval which are:

• perfect intervals.
• major intervals.
• augmented intervals.
• minor intervals.
• diminished intervals.