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Major, minor, and diminished sevenths.

In music, an interval of seven diatonic notes. A seventh is an ‘imperfect interval’ (having ‘major’ and ‘minor’ variants). A major seventh consists of eleven semitones (for example, C-B natural). A minor seventh consists of ten semitones (C-B flat).
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