Definition of Pentachords. Meaning of Pentachords. Synonyms of Pentachords

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Definition of Pentachords

Pentachord
Pentachord Pen"ta*chord, n. [L. pentachordus five-stringed, Gr. ?; ? five + ? string.] 1. An ancient instrument of music with five strings. 2. An order or system of five sounds. --Busby.

Meaning of Pentachords from wikipedia

- non-transpositionally equivalent pentachords rather than seven because the Ionian and Mixolydian pentachords and the Dorian and Aeolian pentachords are intervallically...
- Martino had produced tables of hexachords, tetrachords, trichords, and pentachords for combinatoriality in his 1961 article, "The Source Set and its Aggregate...
- note: Çârgâh Bûselik Kürdî Uşşâk Hicaz and Rast There are also six basic pentachords with the same names with a tone (T) appended. It is worth keeping in...
- cins together. Cins are defined as either trichords, tetrachords or pentachords, which modal entities (although not melodic direction) are derived from...
- triad). Sets of higher cardinalities are called tetrachords (or tetrads), pentachords (or pentads), hexachords (or hexads), heptachords (heptads or, sometimes...
- the Turkish makam, scales are made up of trichords, tetrachords, and pentachords (each called a jins in Arabic) with the tonic of a maqam being the lowest...
- Rast tetrachord and Rast pentachord. It is used as a Çeşni in many makams. The intervals of the Rast tetrachord and Rast pentachord within 53 Tone Equal Temperament...
- mode. They correspond to the English terms trichord, tetrachord, and pentachord. A maqam is made up of two or more ajnas. The Arabic word جنس (jins) probably...
- composed of a lower tetrachord of tone–semitone–tone, ending on D, plus a pentachord tone–semitone–tone–tone continuing from D, and (2) as a mode whose final...
- the Nikriz makam. For Nikriz, there is only the pentachord, as the 4th is raised. The Nikriz pentachord is the same as putting the 53-TET equivalent of...