Traditional British-style brass band parts for the tuba are usually written in treble clef, with the B tuba sounding two octaves and one step below and the E tuba sounding one octave and a major sixth below the written pitch.
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Another just major sixth is the "'Pythagorean major sixth "'with a ratio of 27 : 16, approximately 906 cents, as well as between C and A, G and E, and D and B.
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Another just major sixth is the "'Pythagorean major sixth "'with a ratio of 27 : 16, approximately 906 cents, as well as between C and A, G and E, and D and B.
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The first several notes of the altissimo range, aided by the register key and venting with the first left-hand hole, play fifth harmonics, a major seventeenth ( that is a perfect twelfth plus a major sixth ) above the fundamental.
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The septimal major sixth ( 12 / 7 ) is approximated in 53-tone equal temperament by an interval of 41 steps, giving an actual frequency ratio of the ( 41 / 53 ) root of 2 over 1, approximately 928 cents.
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The acoustic scale may have formed from a major triad ( C E G ) with an added minor seventh and raised fourth ( B and F, drawn from the overtone series ) and major second and major sixth ( D and A ).
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A diminished seventh chord meanwhile, can be respelled in multiple other ways to form a diminished seventh chord in a key a minor third ( m3 as root ), tritone ( ? as root ) or major sixth ( ? as root ) away.
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For typical spectral envelopes in the central range, the second roughest interval is the major second and minor seventh, followed by the tritone, the minor third ( major sixth ), the major third ( minor sixth ) and the perfect fourth ( fifth ).
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It is also important to note that the two fifths, three minor thirds, and three major sixths marked in orange in the tables ( ratio 40 / 27, 32 / 27, and 27 / 16 ( or G ", E ", and A+
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:There's a Basset horn, which sounds down to the F a major sixth below the lowest note of the B-flat standard clarinet . ( Richard Strauss used it in " Elektra " and " Die Frau ohne Schatten " ).
