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Definition of Septuplet
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Septuplet
Literary usage of Septuplet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American History and Encyclopedia of Music by Janet M. Green, Josephine Thrall (1908)
"Abbr. ss, s. sord. septuplet Senza sordino ... A composition for seven instruments
or voices. septuplet ..."
2. Recreation by George O. Shields, American Canoe Association, League of American Sportsmen (1898)
"It is the multicycle J mile handicap race, open to all kinds of bicycles from
the single machine to the septuplet. Multiplet races are something new this ..."
3. The Principles of Expression in Pianoforte Playing by Adolph Friedrich Christiani (1885)
"A septuplet, being the combination of a triplet and a quadruplet, or a quadruplet
and triplet, is accented either so, f—? ..."
4. A Dictionary of Musical Terms: Containing Upwards of 9,000 English, French by Theodore Baker (1895)
"septuplet. Septuor (Fr.) Septet. Sep'tuplet. A group of 7 equal notes to be
performed in the time of 4 or 6 of the same kind in the regular written: ..."
5. The Influence of a Magnetic Field Upon the Spark Spectra of Iron and Titanium by Arthur Scott King (1912)
"Such a line, if it has two widened я-components, is classed as a probable septuplet.
Octuplets and lines of higher separation are classified in a similar ..."
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