musical interval

1. 1.

   the difference in pitch between two notes

   Synonymsinterval

   Broadermusical notation

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Questions about musical interval

What does musical interval mean?

musical interval means "the difference in pitch between two notes".

What is another word for musical interval?

Close synonyms include interval. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is musical interval a common word?

musical interval is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.