diminished intervals
diminished intervals. Perfect or minor intervals which are reduced chromatically by a semitone are diminished intervals. For practical purposes this term is useful only when applied to the diminished 5th (semitone less than perfect 5th) and diminished 7th (semitone less than minor 7th).
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