Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Greek music, the interval formed by adding together two major tones; a Pythagorean major third, having the ratio 81:64, which is a comma greater than a true major third.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mus.) The Greek major third, which comprehend two major tones (the modern major third contains one major and one minor whole tone).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete, music An
interval of twotones
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A group of two or three syllabic concretes is called a = phrase of melody =; and as phrases vary with respect to pitch, in the order of succession of the radicals of their constituent syllables, they receive different names: such as the _monotone_, in which the radicals are all on the same pitch; and the _ditone_ and the _tritone_, groups of two tones and three tones respectively, with radicals of different pitch; and, again, the concretes in these phrases may have upward or downward intonations: but fixed rules cannot be laid down for their use.
The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Ontario. Ministry of Education
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