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Definition of Trichord
1. n. An instrument, as a lyre or harp, having three strings.
Definition of Trichord
1. Noun. (music) any set of three different pitch classes ¹
2. Noun. A musical instrument with three strings, such as a lyre or harp. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Trichord
1. a three-stringed instrument [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trichord
Literary usage of Trichord
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Journal of American Ethnology and Archæology by Jesse Walter Fewkes (1908)
"A trichord (d'-ba ; in As) is repeated, balanced on its base, ... Calling the
A's major or minor as the opening salient trichord is major (ac'-d'; ..."
2. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan by Asiatic Society of Japan (1891)
"... or trichord ; and the 2nd string becomes the first note of the lowest disjunct
pair. This corresponds to a transition into the key of the subdominant. ..."
3. A Journal of American Ethnology and Archæology by Jesse Walter Fewkes (1908)
"The opening movement of a" marks out an exact major trichord; a begins with a
... The extension of a major trichord to a tetrad by a pendent tone is already ..."
4. Workshop Receipts by Ernest Spon, Robert Haldane, Charles George Warnford Lock (1889)
"... note will be quite sufficient in the case of a trichord or semi-trichord piano;
but care must be taken to remove corresponding pins in adjacent notes by ..."
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