| 单词 | diminished triad |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdiminished triad a. Of an interval: Less by a chromatic semitone than a perfect, or than a minor, interval of the same name: opposed to augmented. diminished triad, a triad containing a diminished (instead of a perfect) fifth. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > interval > [adjective] > imperfect false1597 imperfect1609 semi-perfect1623 superfluous1664 diminished1728 augmented1821 pluperfect1876 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Diminish'd Interval, in Music, is a defective Interval, or an Interval which is short of its just Quantity by a lesser Semi-tone. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Interval A Table of Musical Intervals..Diminished Fourth..Diminished Fifth..Diminished Seventh. 1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 297/1 The dominant 7th and the diminished 7th, or their inversions. 1855 R. Browning Toccata of Galuppi's vii, in Men & Women I. 58 Those lesser thirds so plaintive, sixths diminished, sigh on sigh. 1880 C. H. H. Parry in G. Grove Dict. Music I. 448 The diminished seventh..is a semitone less than the ordinary minor seventh. 1920 P. C. Buck Unfigured Harmony (ed. 2) 12 Diminished sevenths are extremely useful, though more liable to be over-used than any other chord. 1953 R. Vaughan Williams Some Thoughts on Beethoven's Choral Symphony 49 So is the diminished seventh of Bach's Barabbas a well-worn device. 1955 G. Abraham in H. van Thal Fanfare for E. Newman 14 Equally characteristic of the more mature Wagner is the lightening of the diminished sevenths.., leaving a purely string chord. < as lemmas |
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