VOL 166 Music Theory 2 - Friern Barnet School

Name: ____________________ Music Theory 2 Worksheet
AUGMENTED AND DIMINISHED INTERVALS
An augmented interval occurs when a perfect or major interval is made a semitone bigger. A
diminshed interval occurs when a perfect or minor interval is made a semitone smaller. The
chart below shows all the intervals available up to an octave starting on the note C.
Perfect
Intervals
Major
Intervals
Minor
Intervals
Augmented
Intervals
Diminished
Intervals
`5rr5
Try to recognise the intervals below.
Use the keyboard to help you. It may help
to work out the number of semitones in
each interval and always include the notes
you start and finish on!
`5 55 w
`5 55 w
`5r 5 `5 55
w
w
`5r 5 E w
`5r 5 Dw
`5r 5 E w
`5 55 Ew
`5 55 D w
`5 55 Ew
w
`5 55 w
`5 55 w
`5 55 E w
`5 55 D w
`5 55 G w
`5 55 w
w
`5 55 w
w
`5 55 E w
w
`5 55 D w
`5 55 G w
w
G A B C D E F G A B C D E
`5 55 `5r 5 `5 55 `5 55
w
w w
w D w
w D w
`5 55 `5 55
D w
w E ` 5 `5 55 `5 55
w w
w
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