In music

Music

Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...

, a minor fifth is the interval

Interval (music)

In music theory, an interval is a combination of two notes, or the ratio between their frequencies. Two-note combinations are also called dyads...

 from the quarter tone

Quarter tone

A quarter tone , is a pitch halfway between the usual notes of a chromatic scale, an interval about half as wide as a semitone, which is half a whole tone....

 scale, named by Ivan Wyschnegradsky, between the diminished fifth (600 cents) and the perfect fifth

Perfect fifth

In classical music from Western culture, a fifth is a musical interval encompassing five staff positions , and the perfect fifth is a fifth spanning seven semitones, or in meantone, four diatonic semitones and three chromatic semitones...

 (700 cents) and thus 650 cents

Cent (music)

The cent is a logarithmic unit of measure used for musical intervals. Twelve-tone equal temperament divides the octave into 12 semitones of 100 cents each...

. It inverts to a major fourth

Major fourth

In music, a major fourth is the interval from the quarter tone scale, named by Ivan Wyschnegradsky, between the perfect fourth and the augmented fourth and thus 550 cents...

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The term may also be applied to the ratio 64:45 or 609.77 cents , formed from the perfect fourth (4/3 = 498.04) and the major semitone (16/15 = 111.73), which is sharp of the ET tritone

Tritone

In classical music from Western culture, the tritone |tone]]) is traditionally defined as a musical interval composed of three whole tones. In a chromatic scale, each whole tone can be further divided into two semitones...

, which is 600 cents.