interval
B minor second
BlowerCupperm21 half steps
One half step, written as a second: the smallest distance between two notes with different letters.
On the keyboard
What is true of it
B up a minor second is C: 1 half step, and 2 letters counting both ends.
Turn it upside down — put the B on top — and it becomes a major seventh. The two numbers always add to nine, and the two sizes to twelve.
It is a dissonance.
Every interval on B
B → C♯major second · dissonanceB → Dminor third · imperfect consonanceB → D♯major third · imperfect consonanceB → Eperfect fourth · perfect consonanceB → E♯augmented fourth · dissonanceB → Fdiminished fifth · dissonanceB → F♯perfect fifth · perfect consonanceB → Gminor sixth · imperfect consonanceB → G♯major sixth · imperfect consonanceB → Aminor seventh · dissonanceB → A♯major seventh · dissonance