单词 | diminished seventh |
释义 | diminished seventhnoun Music 1The interval which is a semitone less than a minor seventh, e.g. from A to G flat (which in equal tuning sounds the same as a major sixth).Tuning a five-string cello to C-G-D-A-D makes difficult-looking passages such as the diminished seventh in bars 3 and 16 remarkably easy....
2 (also diminished seventh chord) A chord formed by a note together with those above it at intervals of a minor third, a diminished fifth, and a diminished seventh. The resulting chord consists entirely of superimposed minor thirds, and is much used in modern music in modulating between keys.It is as if this whining self-pity is the last straw for Edward, and with the fully diminished seventh chord in measures 64 and 65, Edward presents his Mother with a parting gift: ‘The curse of Hell from me shall ye bear.’...
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