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Definition of Tetrachord
1. n. A scale series of four sounds, of which the extremes, or first and last, constituted a fourth. These extremes were immutable; the two middle sounds were changeable.
Definition of Tetrachord
1. Noun. In music a '''tetrachord''' is any set of four different pitch classes. ¹
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Definition of Tetrachord
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tetrachord
Literary usage of Tetrachord
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"A tetrachord is a short scale of four notes, one of the intervals being a half-tone
and the others whole tones, for example: »> (A) Dorian tetrachord, ..."
2. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1846)
"As there is no F natural in the second tetrachord — and it does not ... The second
tetrachord is preceded by an announcement of the final note and the ..."
3. The Philosophy of Music: Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures by William Pole (1895)
"It is pretty clear that the two extreme strings of this tetrachord were set to
an interval of ... At any rate the tetrachord, whatever it was, was improved ..."
4. The Philosophy of Music: Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures by William Pole (1879)
"It is usually supposed that this tetrachord consisted of a semitone and two tones,
forming between the extremes our interval of a fourth ; as, for example, ..."
5. A Dictionary of Musical Terms: Containing Upwards of 9,000 English, French by Theodore Baker (1895)
"[This diatonic division of the tetrachord into 2 whole tones and a semitone (as
a—g—f-^e), of which the Dorian tetrachord is the normal type, ..."
6. The Story of Notation by Charles Francis Abdy Williams (1903)
"... tetrachord in the system—The raising of the leading note by false music produced
the modern tendency of modulation to the dominant—Robert de ..."
7. A Treatise on Harmony: With Exercises by Joseph Humfrey Anger (1906)
"Although any alphabetical group of four notes may be called a tetrachord, yet
this term in modern music invariably signifies a tetrachord in which the notes ..."
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