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Grade 5 - Intervals Part 2

Train your ear for Grade 5 intervals. Learn how each interval feels, from sweet thirds to tense sevenths, and practise naming, inverting, and recognising them quickly.

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Fascinating Fact:

Ear guide. Perfect 4ths and 5ths feel hollow, 3rds and 6ths sound sweet, 2nds and 7ths feel tense, the tritone is most unstable.

In Specialist Music Theory at Grade 5, you deepen interval skills. You name sizes and qualities, hear consonance and dissonance, use inversions, and train your ear to recognise intervals in real music.

Key Terms

Consonance: Intervals that feel stable, such as perfect fifths and many thirds or sixths.
Dissonance: Intervals that feel tense and want to resolve, such as seconds, sevenths, and the tritone.
Inversion: Flipping an interval by moving one note an octave, which changes the size and swaps the quality pairings.

Frequently Asked Questions (Click to see answers)

How can I recognise intervals by ear for Grade 5?

Match each sound to a feeling or a familiar tune. Thirds and sixths sound warm, fourths and fifths feel open, seconds and sevenths feel tight, and the tritone feels very unstable.

What happens to an interval when it is inverted?

Sizes add to nine. Second becomes seventh, third becomes sixth, fourth becomes fifth, and perfect stays perfect. Major inverts to minor, augmented to diminished, and the reverse.

Which intervals are considered consonant and which are dissonant?

Perfect unison, fourth in context, fifth, and octave are consonant. Major and minor thirds and sixths are mostly consonant. Seconds, sevenths, and the tritone are dissonant.