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Irregular terminology[edit]

Calling a semitone interval a minor second does not make sense to me, since it is not the interval between unison and the second note of any minor scale. Can somebody who understands this better than me treat this issue (in the article!). Thanks.CountMacula (talk) 05:03, 22 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It's "minor" as in "lesser", being one semitone smaller than a major second, as a minor third is one semitone smaller than a major third, a minor sixth one semitone smaller than a major sixth, and minor seventh one semitone smaller than a major seventh.—Mahlerlover1^(converse) 08:02, 22 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks.CountMacula (talk) 02:39, 17 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

C-D♭ or B-C. Hyacinth (talk) 22:12, 20 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Dissonance?[edit]

It says: "In just intonation a 16:15 minor second arises in the C major scale between B & C and E & F, and is, "the sharpest dissonance found in the scale."

But the minor second (C-Db) isn't dissonant in just intonation (16/15), and it's also not dissonant in temperaments such as meantone (octave/third/fifth) (as opposed to C-C#, augmented unison (third*fifth^3/octave^3), which is dissonant). Hogdotmac (talk) 18:23, 18 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

All harmonic seconds are dissonant. Hyacinth (talk) 07:27, 5 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Link between differents languages pages of the same topic[edit]

I saw that some pages (see the french page -> https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seconde_%28musique%29 or the spanish page: -> https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segunda) doesn't suggest this english page in their language options; all those pages seem to be separated. Why not linking them ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.193.64.235 (talk) 21:37, 10 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A semitone and a m2 are not necessarily the same thing. A semitone and a half-step ARE the same thing, but a either could be an augmented unison OR a m2.Kirkhanser (talk) 03:07, 4 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]