Augmented seventh Adding a diesis to this makes up an octave. Hence, this interval's complement, the diminished second, is often referred to as a diesis. Augmented seventh In classical music from Western culture, an augmented seventh is an interval produced by widening a major seventh by a chromatic semitone. For instance, the interval from C to B is a major seventh, eleven semitones wide, and both the intervals from C to B, and from C to B are augmented sevenths, spanning twelve semitones. Being augmented, it is classified as a dissonant interval. However, it is enharmonically equivalent to the perfect octave. Since
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