Intervals and Notes

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Notes and intervals are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Notes" instead a noun "Intervals".

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Intervals and notes are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Intervals" instead a noun "Notes".

In "Canon by Intervallic Agumentation," a song based on the theme (famously used in Johann Sebastian Bach's Art of the Fugue) whose notes spell out B-A-C-H is played on a different record player, which distends the intervals so that the notes instead spell C-A-G-E, as in John Cage.

Source: Musical Gag
It's most common in music to stack notes in intervals of a third (for example, putting do and mi together, or re and fa).

Source: Harmony
When a third record player plays the song, the intervals are stretched even further so that the notes of the theme spell B-C-A-H.

Source: Musical Gag

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