单词 | pentachord |
释义 | pentachord Mus.|ˈpɛntəkɔːd| [f. penta- + Gr. χορδή string, chord.] 1. A musical instrument with five strings.
1721Bailey, Pentachord, any musical instrument that has five strings. 1727–41Chambers Cycl. s.v., The invention of the pentachord is referred to the Scythians. 1759in Grove Dict. Mus. I. 4 A piece composed on purpose for an instrument newly-invented in London, and called the pentachord. 1825Fosbroke Encycl. Antiq. 629 Pentachord, strung with ox leather, and touched by a goat's foot. 2. A system or series of five notes.
1811Busby Dict. Mus. (ed. 3), Pentachord,..among the ancients, sometimes signified..an order, or system, of five sounds. 1880W. S. Rockstro in Grove Dict. Mus. II. 341 Each of these [ecclesiastical] Modes is divisible into two members, a Pentachord, and a Tetrachord. †3. The interval of a fifth. Obs. rare.
1694W. Holder Harmony (1731) 66 (Table of Intervals) 5th. Diapente, Pentachord. |

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