130 Comprehensive Review of Intervals

Recommended Solfege for Simple Intervals

Here again is the chart of simple intervals and their recommended solfege from a previous chapter. Memorize the solfege for easy recall:

Well-Known Melodic Contexts for Simple Intervals

Interval	Ascending	Descending
m2 using mi/fa	Berlin, “I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas”	“Happy Birthday to You”
m2 using ti/do		“Joy to the World”
M2 using do/re or re/mi	“Are You Sleeping?”	“Hot Cross Buns”
m3 using mi/sol	“O Canada”	“America the Beautiful”
M3 using do/mi	“Oh When the Saints”	“Skip to My Lou”
P4 using sol/do	“Here Comes the Bride”	Handel, “Hallelujah Chorus”
tritone using ti/fa	Williams, Indiana Jones theme
P5 using do/sol	Williams, Star Wars theme	Tchaikovsky, Swan Lake
m6 using mi/do	Joplin, “The Entertainer”	Alexander, “All Things Bright and Beautiful”
M6 using sol/mi	“My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean”	“Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen”
m7 using sol/fa	Bernstein, “There’s a Place for Us”
M7 using do/ti	Williams, Superman theme continuation
P8 using do/do	Arlen, “Somewhere, Over the Rainbow”

Recordings of Intervals in Context

This playlist contains well-known examples of intervals in common melodic contexts.

Piano Practice

Review the harmonic contexts of intervals by practicing the following chords and their inversions.

Perfect and Imperfect Consonances

“Dominant” Consonances and Dissonances

“Major-Major” Perfect Consonances; “Extreme” Dissonances (M7, m2)

Singing Practice

Review this singing warm-up of intervals and solfege in common contexts. Memorize the solfege and context for easy recall.

Study Skills – Flow Chart

Flow charts are invaluable in helping us identify correct answers and eliminate errors when we are under pressure in an exam. Review the flow chart below for easy categorization of intervals.

Simple vs. Compound

It isn’t hard to “translate” simple intervals into the compound intervals we are now studying. For reference, here is a compound intervals cheat sheet. The procedure? Simply identify the interval and “add 7.”