Diminished octave

In music from Western culture, a diminished octave (Playⓘ) is an interval produced by narrowing a perfect octave by a chromatic semitone.

For instance, the interval from C4 to C5 is a perfect octave, twelve semitones wide, and both the intervals from C♯4 to C5 and from C4 to C♭5 are diminished octaves, spanning eleven semitones.

Being diminished, it is considered a dissonant interval.

[3] The diminished octave is enharmonically equivalent to the major seventh.

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