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=== Steps and skips ===
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Linear (melodic) intervals may be described as ''steps'' or ''skips''. A ''step'', or ''conjunct motion'',<ref name=Bonds>
Bonds, Mark Evan (2006).
''A History of Music in Western Culture'', p.123. 2nd ed. {{ISBN|0-13-193104-0}}.</ref>
is a linear interval between two consecutive notes of a scale. Any larger interval is called a ''skip'' (also called a ''leap''), or ''disjunct motion''.<ref name="Bonds"/> In the [[diatonic scale]],{{efn|name=diatonic}} a step is either a [[minor second]] (sometimes also called ''half step'') or [[major second]] (sometimes also called ''whole step''), with all intervals of a [[minor third]] or larger being skips.

For example, C–D (major second) is a step, whereas C–E ([[major third]]) is a skip.

More generally, a step is a smaller or narrower interval in a musical line, and a skip is a wider or larger interval, where the categorization of intervals into steps and skips is determined by the [[Musical tuning|tuning system]] and the [[pitch space]] used.

[[Melodic motion]] in which the interval between any two consecutive pitches is no more than a step, or, less strictly, where skips are rare, is called ''stepwise'' or ''conjunct'' melodic motion, as opposed to ''skipwise'' or ''disjunct'' melodic motions, characterized by frequent skips.