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tetrachord
noun[ C ]
music specializeduk /ˈtet.rə.kɔːd/ us /ˈtet.rə.kɔːrd/
a set of four notes separated by three intervals(= spaces between higher and lower notes):
The Greeks' early lyres had four strings, constituting their tetrachord.
The first four notes give us a complete whole-tone tetrachord.
The use of overlapping tetrachords is especially notable.
In classical music theory, the first and fourth notes of a tetrachord are separated by a perfect fourth.
The second and fourth notes of the normal first tetrachord of the minor scale are characteristically flattened.
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