Music
- Diminished seventh, a chromatically reduced minor seventh interval
- Major seventh, the larger of two commonly occurring musical intervals that span seven diatonic scale degrees
- Minor seventh, the smaller of two commonly occurring musical intervals that span seven diatonic scale degrees
- Harmonic seventh, the interval of exactly 4:7, whose approximation to the minor seventh in equal temperament explains the "sweetness" of the dominant seventh chord in a major key
- Leading-tone or subtonic, the seventh degree and the chord built on the seventh degree
- Seventh chord, a chord consisting of a triad plus a note forming an interval of a seventh above the chord root
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—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
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