Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In Greek music: A diatonic series of seven tones, containing five whole steps and one half-step (between the third and fourth tones)
- n. The interval of the major seventh.
- n. An instrument with seven strings.
Wiktionary
- n. music A system of seven sounds.
- n. music A lyre with seven chords.
- n. poetry A composition sung to the sound of seven chords or tones.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A system of seven sounds.
- n. A lyre with seven chords.
- n. (Anc. Poet.) A composition sung to the sound of seven chords or tones.
Etymologies
- Ancient Greek seven-stringed, seven + chord: compare French heptacorde. See seven and chord. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“He added three new strings to the cithara, which had consisted only of four, and this heptachord was employed by Pindar, and remained long in high repute; he was also the first who marked the different tones in music.”
Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities
“[2] According to Cicero, and his commentator, Macrobius, the lunar tone is the gravest and faintest on the planetary heptachord.”
The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes
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Musical Intervals
I'm trying to memorize melodic intervals by tagging common songs that start with them. For example Happy Birthday is a good way to remember a major second, and so on. Feel free to suggest weird old...
unison, minor second, major second, minor third, major third, perfect fourth, perfect fifth, minor sixth, major sixth, minor seventh, major seventh, octave and 15 more...
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