Well, finessing the technicalities in which one becomes embroiled if one abandons the tempered scale, a descending minor third is the musical experience one has on descending (say) from sol to mi, from G to E, from E-flat to C, or, in general, 3 semitones.

During W.W. II, the taunt tune was used for the title line in the song "Johnny Got a Zero" -- a pun on the Japanese fighter plane.