Next in order after the sixth;; coming after six others.

An interval embracing seven diatonic degrees of the scale.

A chord which includes the interval of a seventh whether major, minor, or diminished.

Interval between a pitch and another six diatonic steps apart. A semitone less than an octave is a major seventh; a semitone less than that a minor seventh. Both are strongly dissonant intervals, the major seventh pulling to resolve upward, the minor seventh to resolve down. See also seventh chord .