Definition of Hexachord

1. n. A series of six notes, with a semitone between the third and fourth, the other intervals being whole tones.

Definition of Hexachord

1. Noun. (music) A series of six tones denoted with the syllables ut-re-mi-fa-sol-la separated by seconds, the only of which that is a minor second being mi-fa. ¹

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Definition of Hexachord

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hexachord

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hexachlorobiphenyl
hexachlorobiphenyls
hexachlorobutadiene
hexachlorocyclohexane
hexachlorocyclohexanes
hexachloroethane
hexachloropalladate
hexachloropalladates
hexachlorophane
hexachlorophene
hexachlorophenes
hexachlorophenol
hexachloroplatinate
hexachloroplatinates
hexachord (current term)
hexachordal
hexachords
hexacid
hexacode
hexacodes
hexaconazole
hexacoordinate
hexacoordinated
hexacoral
hexacorals
hexacore
hexacosane
hexacosanes

Literary usage of Hexachord

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"So long as the compass of the melody under treatment did not exceed that of a single hexachord, the application of this principle was simple enough ; but, ..."

2. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1889) by Eminent Writers by John Alexander Fuller-Maitland, Adela Harriet Sophia Bagot Wodehouse (1879)
"And the same system is followed with regard to all notes that occur in more than one hexachord. The third, or Soft hexachord ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The invention of the hexachord, the origin of which is bound up with that of the gamut, when understood to mean the great scale, is usually ascribed to ..."

4. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by George Grove, John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1880)
"And the same system is followed with regard to all notes that occur in more than one hexachord. The third, or Soft hexachord ..."

5. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"dusky bluish color, and does not essentially differ from the lavaretus. В FA, B MI, in solmisation (music), according to the hexachord of Guido ..."

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