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Perfect and diminished intervals.

In music, a term used to describe intervals normally ‘perfect’ (fourths, fifth, octaves) or ‘minor’ (seconds, thirds, sixths, sevenths) which have been made a semitone narrower.



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When he came again to the stream, the Ass fell down on purpose in the same spot, and, regaining his feet with the weight of his load much diminished, brayed triumphantly as if he had obtained what he desired.
Slowly she drifted to the southeast, rising higher and higher as the flames ate away her wooden parts and diminished the weight upon her.
It occasionally occurred that a peddler with diminished pack and swollen purse would be traced to the lonely dwelling of some rough character and never could be traced beyond.
 
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