Minor third

Notable examples of ascending minor thirds include the opening two notes of "Greensleeves" and of "Light My Fire".

[2] It is also a quartal (based on an ascendance of one or more perfect fourths) tertian interval, as opposed to the major third's quintality.

If a minor third is tuned in accordance with the fundamental of the overtone series, the result is a ratio of 19:16 or 297.51 cents (the nineteenth harmonic).

[4] M. Ergo mistakenly claimed that the nineteenth harmonic was the highest ever written, for the bass-trumpet in Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen (1848 to 1874), when Robert Schumann's Op.

Instruments in A – most commonly the A clarinet, sound a minor third lower than the written pitch.

In music theory, a semiditone (or Pythagorean minor third)[6] is the interval 32:27 (approximately 294.13 cents).