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List of third intervals
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<h2 id="table-of-thirds-in-equal-temperaments-tuning">Table of thirds in equal temperaments tuning</h2> <table><tbody><tr><th>Number of<a href="/facts/Semitone/lVBsLYSA">semitones</a></th><th>Minor, major,or perfect intervals</th><th>Short</th><th>Augmented ordiminished intervals</th><th>Short</th><th>Widely used<a href="/facts/Interval_(music)/aFwkkgpY">alternative names</a></th><th>Short</th><th>Audio</th></tr><tr><td>2</td><td><a href="/facts/Major_second/x94d53Fo">Major second</a></td><td>M2</td><td><i><a href="/facts/Diminished_third/Cbs1asVn">Diminished third</a></i></td><td>d3</td><td><a href="/facts/Whole_tone/x94d53Fo">Tone</a>, whole tone, whole step<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a></td><td>T<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>3</td><td><i><a href="/facts/Minor_third/4y8zBxwY">Minor third</a></i></td><td>m3</td><td><a href="/facts/Augmented_second/nHnGftmV">Augmented second</a></td><td>A2</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>4</td><td><i><a href="/facts/Major_third/7CPRURg4">Major third</a></i></td><td>M3</td><td><a href="/facts/Diminished_fourth/AHqVFXyu">Diminished fourth</a></td><td>d4</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>5</td><td><a href="/facts/Perfect_fourth/IA1GPHBw">Perfect fourth</a></td><td>P4</td><td><i><a href="/facts/Augmented_third/JQAcURIJ">Augmented third</a></i></td><td>A3</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Interval_(music)/aFwkkgpY">List of musical intervals</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/List_of_pitch_intervals/QLdzb3aI">List of pitch intervals</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Third_(disambiguation)/oU3WFt1d">Third (music)</a>, which also includes third chords</li></ul> <h2 id="notes">Notes</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/William_Duckworth_(composer)/16lMWInt">Duckworth, William</a> (2007). <a href="https://archive.org/details/creativeapproach00will/page/1"><i>A Creative Approach to Music Fundamentals</i></a> (ninth ed.). Thomson Schirmer. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0-495-09093-9.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Stefan_Kostka/w7tUEn6T">Kostka, Stefan</a>; Payne, Dorothy; Almén, Byron (2013). <i>Tonal Harmony with an Introduction to Twentieth-century Music</i> (seventh ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0-07-131828-0.</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>The terms tone, whole tone, and whole step refer only to major seconds (M2) <a href="/wiki/Whole_tone" target="_blank">/wiki/Whole_tone</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>The terms tone, whole tone, and whole step refer only to major seconds (M2) <a href="/wiki/Whole_tone" target="_blank">/wiki/Whole_tone</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>