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tetrachord [′te·trə‚kȯrd] (acoustics) The basis of a variety of ancient musical scales, consisting of four notes, with an interval of a perfect fourth between the highest and lowest notes. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Aspiring to demonstrate the continuity between the ancient and the modern Greek musical culture, these investigations used musical theoretical writings of classical antiquity as their starting point and eventually led to the identification of the tetrachord as the basis for the melodic construction of Greek folk tunes. Tomlinson, after Foucault, draws a line between resemblance and representation as separate categories: the one betokens an affinity between the madrigalism and the word prompting it; the other, a musical idea that is autonomous, albeit indicative of a certain emotion or thought or state, as, say, a descending tetrachord that, by a consensual decision reached by composers, was widely utilized as an emblem of lament. Under the Sea" asks students to spell the two tetrachords in major scales. |
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