Decime (music)

Diatonic intervals
Prime second third fourth fifth sixth seventh octave none decime undezime duodecime tredezime semitone / whole tone
Special intervals
Microinterval Comma Diësis Limma Apotome Ditone Tritone Wolf fifth Natural septime
units
Cent Millioctave Octave Savart

A decime (more rarely: "decim", from Latin decimus : "the tenth") is an interval in music that is composed of octaves and thirds and thus spans ten pitches of a diatonic , heptatonic scale (e.g. c → e ¹ ). In a narrower sense, the decime can also mean the tenth degree of the scale.

Note example: decimal intervals

The large decime (a) is sixteen, the small decime (b) fifteen semitones. Like thirds, decimals are consonant. In comparison with the other octave-crossing intervals, decimals are found relatively often as melodic intervals, as they can be sung comparatively easily.