Need help with a quiz question please
Which statement best describes an interval?
A. the lowest pitch of each chord
B. chords performed in specific order
C. the musical distance between two points
D. a chord containing three pitches
So I originally answered with C, but I guess that was wrong. Can anyone please explain to me which it is? I was originally thinking it was D, but i'm not sure if I was right.
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To be completely clear, answer C is not precisely correct, but it is the best of the available answers. To be precisely correct it would have to include the word 'vertical' somewhere. An interval is the vertical distance between two musical points. (If the distance was horizontal, the answer should involve the word 'duration.')
The answer is most definitely C, "the musical distance between two points." (And in really academic music theory, it becomes generalized even more!)
If you put C and it was marked incorrect, then it was graded incorrectly. Contact your teacher, because your answer is right!
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