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  • Committer: Bazaar Package Importer
  • Author(s): Tom Cato Amundsen
  • Date: 2010-09-19 16:40:13 UTC
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Fix the test suite so that it builds (closes: #595860) 

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<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><title>Inverting intervals</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../style.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.75.2"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="GNU Solfege 3.16.3 User Manual"><link rel="up" href="music-theory.html" title="Chapter 3. Music theory"><link rel="prev" href="theory-intervals.html" title="Intervals"><link rel="next" href="extending-solfege.html" title="Chapter 4. Extending GNU Solfege"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Inverting intervals</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="theory-intervals.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter 3. Music theory</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="extending-solfege.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="sect1" title="Inverting intervals"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="inverting-intervals"></a>Inverting intervals</h2></div></div></div><p>You invert an interval when you move the lowest tone of an interval one
 
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<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><title>Inverting intervals</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../style.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.75.2"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="GNU Solfege 3.16.4 User Manual"><link rel="up" href="music-theory.html" title="Chapter 3. Music theory"><link rel="prev" href="theory-intervals.html" title="Intervals"><link rel="next" href="extending-solfege.html" title="Chapter 4. Extending GNU Solfege"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Inverting intervals</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="theory-intervals.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter 3. Music theory</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="extending-solfege.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="sect1" title="Inverting intervals"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="inverting-intervals"></a>Inverting intervals</h2></div></div></div><p>You invert an interval when you move the lowest tone of an interval one
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octave higher or the highest tone one octave lower. The general name changes this way:</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" type="disc"><li class="listitem"><p>Second becomes seventh.</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Third becomes sixth.</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Forth becomes fifth.</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Fifth becomes fourth.</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Sixth becomes third.</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Seventh becomes second.</p></li></ul></div><p>The specific name changes this way:</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" type="disc"><li class="listitem"><p>Diminished becomes augmented.</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Minor becomes major.</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Perfect stays perfect.</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Major becomes minor.</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Augmented becomes diminished.</p></li></ul></div><p>Below are two examples, a
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major third is inverted and becomes a minor sixth, and a minor seventh is
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inverted and becomes a major second.</p><div class="figure"><a name="music-theory-inverting-intervals-fig"></a><p class="title"><b>Figure 3.12. </b></p><div class="figure-contents"><div class="mediaobject"><img src="../C/ly/inverting-intervals.png"></div></div></div><br class="figure-break"></div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="theory-intervals.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="music-theory.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="extending-solfege.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Intervals </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Chapter 4. Extending GNU Solfege</td></tr></table></div></body></html>