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Definition of Tetrachords
1. tetrachord [n] - See also: tetrachord
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tetrachords
Literary usage of Tetrachords
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Harmony and Analysis by Kenneth McPherson Bradley (1908)
"tetrachords. A Tetrachord consists of two whole-steps and one half-step. 7.
The Diatonic Major Scale. A Diatonic Major Scale (Latin scala, ..."
2. The Claims of Japan and Malaysia Upon Christendom by C. W. King, G. Tradescant Lay (1839)
"Here are three tetrachords, or groups of four sounds, which agree together in
having the halftone between the ..."
3. The Septonate and the Centralization of the Tonal System: A New View of the by Julius Klauser (1890)
"... or tetrachords that divide the scale into two equal halves; my conception of
the Tonic as a central tone and of the ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The middle note, A, belonging to both tetrachords, was called Mese (middle) and
... It will be noted that the two tetrachords are both Dorian, which was the ..."
5. Aristoxenou Harmonika stoicheia =: The harmonics of Aristoxenus by Aristoxenus, Henry Stewart Macran (1902)
"15 sive tetrachords, similar in figure, have a common note ; the term disjunction,
when two successive tetrachords similar in figure are separated by the ..."
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