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- n. a major third in the final tonic chord of a minor-key passage, a device mostly used in Baroque, although occasionally in Classical music, and then adopted much later on in neoclassicism.
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evin290 commented on the word picardy third
Randall Thompson really needs to use these more sparingly. :(
September 8, 2007