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Definition of tetrachord in English: tetrachordnoun ˈtɛtrəkɔːdˈtɛtrəˌkɔrd Music 1A scale of four notes, the interval between the first and last being a perfect fourth. Example sentencesExamples - It is logical, then, that the use of the descending tetrachord leads Weelkes to introduce the phrygian mode in a yet more obvious fashion in the following phrase, ‘Care they for me’.
- It's written in a kind of pastiche nineteenth-century style, complete with faux-Spanish exotic syncopations, melody and harmony (falling tetrachords, augmented seconds).
- The sets are closely connected through numerous common and transpositionally or inversionally related segments, usually dyads, trichords and/or tetrachords.
- Lully was famous for his composition of extended passacailles, pieces based on the ostinato repetition of repeating bass line, usually on a four-bar, stepwise descending bass line, the minor mode tetrachord from do to sol.
- There are instances, however, where scale-motion rather conspicuously predominates, or where a melody is made largely of scale segments - of half-scales or tetrachords, for example.
- 1.1historical An instrument with four strings.
Example sentencesExamples - A common instrument from those times was the tetrachord, a kind of four-stringed harp.
Definition of tetrachord in US English: tetrachordnounˈtetrəˌkôrdˈtɛtrəˌkɔrd Music 1A scale of four notes, the interval between the first and last being a perfect fourth. Example sentencesExamples - It's written in a kind of pastiche nineteenth-century style, complete with faux-Spanish exotic syncopations, melody and harmony (falling tetrachords, augmented seconds).
- There are instances, however, where scale-motion rather conspicuously predominates, or where a melody is made largely of scale segments - of half-scales or tetrachords, for example.
- The sets are closely connected through numerous common and transpositionally or inversionally related segments, usually dyads, trichords and/or tetrachords.
- It is logical, then, that the use of the descending tetrachord leads Weelkes to introduce the phrygian mode in a yet more obvious fashion in the following phrase, ‘Care they for me’.
- Lully was famous for his composition of extended passacailles, pieces based on the ostinato repetition of repeating bass line, usually on a four-bar, stepwise descending bass line, the minor mode tetrachord from do to sol.
- 1.1historical A musical instrument with four strings.
Example sentencesExamples - A common instrument from those times was the tetrachord, a kind of four-stringed harp.
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