LilyPond Music Glossary: 1.261 second

## 1.261 second

ES: segunda, I: seconda, F: seconde, D: Sekunde, NL: secunde, DK: sekund, S: sekund, FI: sekunti.

The interval between two neighboring tones of a scale. A diatonic scale consists of alternating semitones and whole tones, hence the size of a second depends on the scale degrees in question.

#### See also

diatonic scale, interval, semitone, whole tone.

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