• In music theory, a tetrachord (Greek: τετράχορδoν; Latin: tetrachordum) is a series of four notes separated by three intervals. In traditional music theory...
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  • In music theory, the descending tetrachord is a series of four notes from a scale, or tetrachord, arranged in order from highest to lowest, or descending...
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  • describe certain classes of intonations of the two movable notes within a tetrachord. The tetrachordal system was inherited by the Latin medieval theory of...
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  • note. There are six basic tetrachords, named sometimes according to their tonic note and sometimes according to the tetrachord's most distinctive note: Çârgâh...
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  • An all-interval tetrachord is a tetrachord, a collection of four pitch classes, containing all six interval classes. There are only two possible all-interval...
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  • Buselik, there is the Buselik tetrachord and the Buselik pentachord. The intervals of the Buselik pentachord and Buselik tetrachord within 53 Tone Equal Temperament...
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  • years from simple scales of tetrachords, or divisions of the perfect fourth, into several complex systems encompassing tetrachords and octaves, as well as...
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  • Çârgâh, there is the Çârgâh tetrachord and the Çârgâh pentachord. The intervals of the Buselik pentachord and Buselik tetrachord within 53 Tone Equal Temperament...
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  • there is the Uşşak tetrachord and the Hüseynî pentachord. While in Arabic maqam music, maqam Bayati is taken as a basic tetrachord, in Turkish makam music...
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  • Turkish makam. For Hicaz, there is the Hicaz tetrachord and Hicaz pentachord. The intervals of the Hicaz tetrachord and Rast pentachord within 53 Tone Equal...
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  • Harmonicist school of Eratocles in terms of the enharmonic genus of the tetrachord: a series of rising intervals of two quarter tones followed by a ditone...
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  • Rast, there is the Rast tetrachord and Rast pentachord. It is used as a Çeşni in many makams. The intervals of the Rast tetrachord and Rast pentachord within...
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    referring in Ancient Greek music theory to a particular tuning of the tetrachord, and to a rhythmic notational convention in mensural music of the 14th...
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    and a half step. With this tuning, a diatonic scale is broken into two tetrachords, or groups of four notes. For example, on an instrument with D as the...
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    constructed by attaching cins together. Cins are defined as either trichords, tetrachords or pentachords, which modal entities (although not melodic direction)...
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  • or "kind". In most cases, a jins is made up of four consecutive notes (tetrachord), although ajnas of three consecutive notes (trichord) or five consecutive...
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    harmonized. The diatonic version is the upper tetrachord from the natural minor scale, known as the Phrygian tetrachord, while the chromatic version, the chromatic...
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    maqam Modes of limited transposition Symmetric scale Synthetic modes Tetrachord A free Android app with scales & building chords for the scales A Study...
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  • Kürdî, there is the Kürdî tetrachord and the Kürdî pentachord. The intervals of the Kürdî pentachord and Kürdî tetrachord within 53 Tone Equal Temperament...
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  • is called Ptolemy's intense diatonic tetrachord (or "tense"), as opposed to Ptolemy's soft diatonic tetrachord (or "relaxed"), which is formed by 21:20...
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  • lower and uper Çeşnis - last note of the first tetrachord or pentachord and first note of the second tetrachord or pentachord. Durak Tiz durak Yeden Donanım...
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    The Andalusian cadence (diatonic phrygian tetrachord) is a term adopted from flamenco music for a chord progression comprising four chords descending stepwise...
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    In music theory, a chromatic fourth, or passus duriusculus, is a melody or melodic fragment spanning a perfect fourth with all or almost all chromatic...
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  • one or more black keys. A diatonic scale can be also described as two tetrachords separated by a whole tone. In musical set theory, Allen Forte classifies...
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  • Şifre, in Turkish makam theory, is the code of the çeşni (tetrachords and pentachords) that represents the intervals in the 53 TET scale by certain symbols...
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    species of ancient Greece which, in its diatonic genus, is built from a tetrachord consisting (in rising direction) of a semitone followed by two whole tones...
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  • as Karar), in Turkish makam theory, is the initial note of the first tetrachord or pentachord in the diatonic scale, and the tonic note which always concludes...
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    BACH motif (redirect from Bach tetrachord)
    Webern's String Quartet, Op. 28, tone row, composed of three tetrachords: P I RI, with P = the BACH motif, I = it inverted, and RI = it inverted and backwards...
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    Monteverdi's madrigal Lamento della Ninfa is a passacaglia on a descending tetrachord. The first two movements of the fourth sonata from Johann Heinrich Schmelzer's...
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  • Depending on the positioning (spacing) of the interposed tones in the tetrachords, three genera of the seven octave species can be recognized. The diatonic...
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