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diminished fifth
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What does diminished fifth mean?
diminished fifth
noun
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(music) A type of tritone in musical composition comprising six semitones. It spans five diatonic scale degrees like a perfect fifth but narrower by a semitone. The number of diatonic degrees it spans is what distinguishes it from an augmented fourth.
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