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The [[9/8|major second]] is often regarded as a dissonant interval, but it seems rather unique in that it produces auditory roughness, but doesn't necessarily feel emotionally jarring in the way something like one of the various flavors of [[tritone]] does. This is easily explained by the fact that two notes a major second apart are somewhat harmonically similar, due to being related by two factors of 3 and three factors of 2, which gives the major second a more emotionally neutral flavor than other dissonant intervals. | The [[9/8|major second]] is often regarded as a dissonant interval, but it seems rather unique in that it produces auditory roughness, but doesn't necessarily feel emotionally jarring and unstable in the way something like one of the various flavors of [[tritone]] does. This is easily explained by the fact that two notes a major second apart are somewhat harmonically similar, due to being related by two factors of 3 and three factors of 2, which gives the major second a more emotionally neutral flavor than other dissonant intervals. | ||