Tetrachord Definition

tĕtrə-kôrd
noun
A series of four tones contained in the interval of a perfect fourth.
Webster's New World

In music a tetrachord is any set of four different pitch classes.

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Other Word Forms of Tetrachord

Noun

Singular:
tetrachord
Plural:
tetrachords

Origin of Tetrachord

  • Greek tetrakhordon from neuter of tetrakhordos four-stringed tetra- tetra- khordē string gherə- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Tetrachord Sentence Examples

  • So persistently does the human ear rebel against the division of the tetrachord into two greater tones and a leimma or hemitone, as represented by the fractions 9, 9, 26, that, centuries before the possibility of reconciling the demands of the ear with those of exact science was satisfactorily demonstrated, the Aristoxenian school advocated the use of an empirical scale, sounding pleasant to the sense, in preference to an unpleasing tonality founded upon immutable proportions.

  • Claudius Ptolemy (130) rectified this error, and in the so-called syntonous or intense diatonic scale reduced the proportions of his tetrachord to s, iii, f, -i.

  • As this note is in the upper tetrachord of the scale, the raga is then classified as a morning raga.

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