Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In Greek music, the interval formed by adding together two major tones; a Pythagorean major third, having the ratio 81:64, which is a comma greater than a true major third. The use of this tuning of the major third until about the twelfth century prevented its recognition till that time as a consonance.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Mus.) The Greek major third, which comprehend two major tones (the modern major third contains one major and one minor whole tone).
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“A group of two or three syllabic concretes is called a = phrase of melody =; and as phrases vary with respect to pitch, in the order of succession of the radicals of their constituent syllables, they receive different names: such as the _monotone_, in which the radicals are all on the same pitch; and the _ditone_ and the _tritone_, groups of two tones and three tones respectively, with radicals of different pitch; and, again, the concretes in these phrases may have upward or downward intonations: but fixed rules cannot be laid down for their use.”
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