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This is the interval between the third-to-last and second-to-last notes of each A section of “Body and Soul.” The two-note saxophone entry in Sonny Rollins’s “Blue 7” descends by this interval. This is the distance between the supertonic and the note added to a major scale to create a bebop major scale. (-5[1])The (10[1])half-diminished chord in the fifth (10[1])measure of each A section of “Autumn Leaves” follows a major chord this (-5[1])distance away. This is the interval between the lowest note and the second-highest note (-5[1])of a chord symbolized by a circle with a diagonal (10[1]-5[1])slash through it. (-5[1])One compound version (10[1])of this interval is notated “sharp eleven.” A technique named for this interval (10[1])might use a (10[1])D-flat seventh (10[1])chord as (10[1])a dominant (10[2])in C major; that is this interval’s namesake “substitution.” (-5[1])For 10 points, (10[1])what interval can (10[1])manifest as a diminished fifth? ■END■ (10[2]0[10])

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