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A
unknown · 78% connection
The name of the sixth tone in the model major scale (that in C), or the first tone of the minor scale, which is named after it the sca…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: scale, running, dominant, octave, said.
Apocrypha
n. pl. · 78% connection
Specif.: Certain writings which are received by some Christians as an authentic part of the Holy Scriptures, but are rejected by other…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: scale, running, dominant, octave, said.
Authentic
noun · 78% connection
Of approved authority; true; trustworthy; credible; as, an authentic writer; an authentic portrait; authentic information.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: scale, running, dominant, octave, said.
Auxiliary
sing. · 78% connection
A verb which helps to form the voices, modes, and tenses of other verbs; -- called, also, an auxiliary verb; as, have, be, may, can, d…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: scale, running, dominant, octave, said.
Bond
noun · 78% connection
A writing under seal, by which a person binds himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a certain sum on or before a f…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: scale, running, dominant, octave, said.
Celsius
noun · 78% connection
The Celsius thermometer or scale, so called from Anders Celsius, a Swedish astronomer, who invented it. It is the same as the centigra…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: scale, running, dominant, octave, said.
Church modes
unknown · 78% connection
The modes or scales used in ancient church music. See Gregorian.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: scale, running, dominant, octave, said.
Diapason
noun · 78% connection
The octave, or interval which includes all the tones of the diatonic scale.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: scale, running, dominant, octave, said.
Diatonic
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to the scale of eight tones, the eighth of which is the octave of the first.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: scale, running, dominant, octave, said.
Dominant
noun · 78% connection
The fifth tone of the scale; thus G is the dominant of C, A of D, and so on.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: scale, running, dominant, octave, said.
Elenctical
adjective · 78% connection
Serving to refute; refutative; -- applied to indirect modes of proof, and opposed to deictic.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: scale, running, dominant, octave, said.
Fifth
noun · 78% connection
The interval of three tones and a semitone, embracing five diatonic degrees of the scale; the dominant of any key.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: scale, running, dominant, octave, said.
Inversion
noun · 78% connection
Said of intervals, when the lower tone is placed an octave higher, so that fifths become fourths, thirds sixths, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: scale, running, dominant, octave, said.
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,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: scale, running, dominant, octave, said.
Kirk
noun · 78% connection
A church or the church, in the various senses of the word; esp., the Church of Scotland as distinguished from other reformed churches,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: scale, running, dominant, octave, said.
Lamella
noun · 78% connection
a thin plate or scale of anything, as a thin scale growing from the petals of certain flowers; or one of the thin plates or scales of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: scale, running, dominant, octave, said.
Lydian
adjective · 78% connection
Of or pertaining to Lydia, a country of Asia Minor, or to its inhabitants; hence, soft; effeminate; -- said especially of one of the a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: scale, running, dominant, octave, said.
Madrigal
noun · 78% connection
An unaccompanied polyphonic song, in four, five, or more parts, set to secular words, but full of counterpoint and imitation, and adhe…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: scale, running, dominant, octave, said.
