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Mediant

The third above the keynote; -- so called because it divides the interval between the tonic and dominant into two thirds.

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Note 76% connected

To butt; to push with the horns.

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Tone 76% connected

Sound, or the character of a sound, or a sound considered as of this or that character; as, a low, high, loud, grave, acute, sweet, or harsh tone.

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Adoration noun · 78% connection

A method of electing a pope by the expression of homage from two thirds of the conclave.

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Authentic noun · 78% connection

Having as immediate relation to the tonic, in distinction from plagal, which has a correspondent relation to the dominant in the octav…

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C unknown · 78% connection

The keynote of the normal or "natural" scale, which has neither flats nor sharps in its signature; also, the third note of the relativ…

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Cadence noun · 78% connection

The close or fall of a strain; the point of rest, commonly reached by the immediate succession of the tonic to the dominant chord.

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Complement verb · 78% connection

The interval wanting to complete the octave; -- the fourth is the complement of the fifth, the sixth of the third.

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Cotton noun · 78% connection

A soft, downy substance, resembling fine wool, consisting of the unicellular twisted hairs which grow on the seeds of the cotton plant…

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Day noun · 78% connection

The period of the earth's revolution on its axis. -- ordinarily divided into twenty-four hours. It is measured by the interval between…

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Digit noun · 78% connection

One twelfth part of the diameter of the sun or moon; -- a term used to express the quantity of an eclipse; as, an eclipse of eight dig…

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Ditone noun · 78% connection

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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Divide verb · 78% connection

To cause to be separate; to keep apart by a partition, or by an imaginary line or limit; as, a wall divides two houses; a stream divid…

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Divider noun · 78% connection

a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another)

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Eleventh noun · 78% connection

The interval consisting of ten conjunct degrees; the interval made up of an octave and a fourth.

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Enharmonical adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to that one of the three kinds of musical scale (diatonic, chromatic, enharmonic) recognized by the ancient Greeks, w…

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Entasia noun · 78% connection

Tonic spasm; -- applied generically to denote any disease characterized by tonic spasms, as tetanus, trismus, etc.

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Fifth noun · 78% connection

The interval of three tones and a semitone, embracing five diatonic degrees of the scale; the dominant of any key.

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Inversion noun · 78% connection

Said of intervals, when the lower tone is placed an octave higher, so that fifths become fourths, thirds sixths, etc.

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Key noun · 78% connection

A family of tones whose regular members are called diatonic tones, and named key tone (or tonic) or one (or eight), mediant or three,…

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Key tone unknown · 78% connection

See Keynote.

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