Complex sentence: More generally, a step is a smaller or narrower interval in a musical line, and a skip is a wider or larger interval, with the categorization of intervals into steps and skips is determined by the tuning system and the pitch space used.
Split into simpler sentences: More generally, a step is a smaller or narrower interval in a musical line, and a skip is a wider or larger interval. The categorization of intervals into steps and skips is determined by the tuning system and the pitch space used.