Supraminor
Supraminor (sometimes also superminor) is an interval quality used to describe intervals wider than minor, but narrower than neutral.
Terminology
While "superminor" is more consistent with the analogous "supermajor", it is more likely to be interpreted as "more minor", therefore implying intervals narrower than minor, whereas such intervals are rather called subminor. This may be caused by the common use of "super" in English both as an adverb and a prefix, leading to a possible parsing of the term as "super major", while "supra" is only used as a prefix. Nonetheless, since both Latin prefixes are equivalent in meaning, both terms are technically correct and are interchangeable.
The term "supraminor" has been used regularly by many people, including Manuel Op de Coul[1], John Chalmers[2], Dave Keenan[3], Margo Schulter[4] and Deja Igliashon[5]. As of January 4th, 2024, the term "supraminor" has 4 times more occurrences on XA Discord compared with "superminor".
References
- ↑ Op de Coul, Manuel. Stichting Huygens-Fokker: List of intervals.
- ↑ Chalmers, John. Divisions of the Tetrachord. 1993.
- ↑ Keenan, Dave. A note on the naming of musical intervals. 1999, updated 2001.
- ↑ Schulter, Margo. Regions of the Interval Spectrum. 2010.
- ↑ Extra-Diatonic Intervals