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musical interval spanning five staff positions; either a perfect fifth, an augmented fifth, or a diminished fifth

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interval
Followed by
sixth
Follows
fourth
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degree
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Fifths
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Encyclopedic overview

In the theory and practice of music, a fifth interval is an ordered pair of notes that are separated by an interval of 6–8 semitones.

There are three types of fifth intervals, namely

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “fifth” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.