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A useful way to begin interval recognition training is to associate each interval with a familiar song. Here are some suggestions.
| Interval | Abbr | Up | Down |
| Unison | P1 | - | - |
| Minor Second, Semitone | m2 | Chromatic scale; Stormy Weather; The Entertainer | Joy to the World; Für Elise |
| Major Second, Tone | M2 | Major scale; Frère Jacques; Silent Night | Three Blind Mice; Mary Had a Little Lamb |
| Minor Third | m3 | Greensleeves; To Dream the Impossible Dream | This Old Man; Hey Jude |
| Major Third | M3 | KumBaiYah; Oh When the Saints Go Marching In | Beethoven's 5th; Summertime |
| Perfect Fourth | P4 | Amazing Grace; Oh Tannenbaum; Here Comes the Bride | Old MacDonald |
| Tritone, Augmented Fourth, Diminished Fifth, The Devil's Interval | a4, d5 | Maria (West Side Story); Simpsons' theme | |
| Perfect Fifth | P5 | Twinkle Twinkle Little Star | Flintstones theme |
| Minor Sixth | m6 | The Entertainer | Love Story theme; Music of the Night |
| Major Sixth | M6 | My Bonny Lies over the Ocean | Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen |
| Minor Seventh | m7 | There's a Place For Us (West Side Story); Star Trek theme (original) |
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| Major Seventh | M7 | ||
| Perfect Eighth, Octave | P8 | Somewhere Over the Rainbow | No Business Like Show Business; Hot Cross Buns |
Musical interval tutor: http://www.musicalintervalstutor.info/index.html
Another musical interval tutor: http://www.ossmann.com/bigears/index.html
Teoria, a large collection of theory tutorials and more advanced resources: http://www.teoria.com/
eMusicTheory has online drills and lessons as well as a forum: http://www.emusictheory.com/
Ars Nova: various products icluding a theory tutor: http://www.ars-nova.com/products.html
Auralia, ear training tutor and drills. http://www.risingsoftware.com/auralia30/
Earope, a windows ear training program: http://www.cope.dk/
Noteworthy Composer - music notation for Windows: http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/
Finale - music notation for Mac and recenlty other platforms: http://www.codamusic.com/finale/default.aspx
A Mac ear training program: http://www.lpeters.de/
Lilypond - music notation for Mac, Linux and other unixes: http://lilypond.org/web/
Barfly - music notation for Mac: http://www.barfly.dial.pipex.com/
A huge collection of Mac software for MIDI etc etc: http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/mac/
Palm Pilot music resources, rather our of date but perhaps useful for older devices: http://goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au/~winikoff/palm/music/index.html
OK, as you see, this is a work in progress. Here are some other
URLs snaffled off my bookmark list which I will get around to categorising sometime.
http://nwcchorus.free.fr/index_e.htm
http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/linuxsound/
http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/variations/scores/
http://www.keystrokepublishing.com/html/products.html
http://www.sheetmusicnow.com/
http://www3.telus.net/dogstarmusic/freeshee.htm
http://www.cdsheetmusic.com/index.html
http://www.mp3.com.au/beginners.asp
http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/
http://www.schubertline.co.uk/Scorchshop/cgi-bin/index.cgi
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/mac/MIDI_PLAYERS_UTILITIES/
http://www.ronimusic.com/
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/11/148253
http://xmidi.com/apps.html
http://www.aria-database.com/index2.html
http://www.cerlsoundgroup.org/cgi-bin/Lime/Mac.html