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Major, minor, and augmented sixths; major and minor 6–3 and 6–4 chords.
| In music, an interval of six diatonic notes. A sixth is an ‘imperfect interval’ (having ‘major’ and ‘minor’ variants). A major sixth consists of nine semitones (for example, C–A). A minor sixth consists of eight semitones (C–A flat). |
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