Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In music, pertaining to intervals; pertaining to pitch as distinguished from force, duration, or quality.
- Pertaining to an interval in any sense.
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- adjective music Of, or pertaining to,
intervals .
Etymologies
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Examples
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(No. 144), which soon transcends its merely "intervallic" exploration and points to a world soon inhabited by Kurtag and Ligeti.
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On "Regret No More," a high point of the album, Mr. Clayton plays a heart wrenching duet with Mr. Akinmusire, whose delicately played solo jumps with an impressive intervallic slur that is perfectly controlled and has the emotional impact of a desperate human cry.
Ralph A. Miriello: When the Heart Emerges Glistening a Powerful New Album by Ambrose Akinmusire Ralph A. Miriello 2011
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The temple seems to have been abandoned around the middle of the third century AD, about the time faith in Sobek as a god and savior waned, coinciding with one of the intervallic droughts.
Richard Bangs: Quest for the Lord of the Nile, Part III Richard Bangs 2011
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On "Regret No More," a high point of the album, Mr. Clayton plays a heart wrenching duet with Mr. Akinmusire, whose delicately played solo jumps with an impressive intervallic slur that is perfectly controlled and has the emotional impact of a desperate human cry.
Ralph A. Miriello: When the Heart Emerges Glistening a Powerful New Album by Ambrose Akinmusire Ralph A. Miriello 2011
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The temple seems to have been abandoned around the middle of the third century AD, about the time faith in Sobek as a god and savior waned, coinciding with one of the intervallic droughts.
Richard Bangs: Quest for the Lord of the Nile, Part III Richard Bangs 2011
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On "Regret No More," a high point of the album, Mr. Clayton plays a heart wrenching duet with Mr. Akinmusire, whose delicately played solo jumps with an impressive intervallic slur that is perfectly controlled and has the emotional impact of a desperate human cry.
Ralph A. Miriello: When the Heart Emerges Glistening a Powerful New Album by Ambrose Akinmusire Ralph A. Miriello 2011
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The respective intervallic vocabularies remain, to an extent, a tower of babel.
Magna Carter (6): This Is Your Life Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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The respective intervallic vocabularies remain, to an extent, a tower of babel.
Archive 2008-07-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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Eerie string effects, ominous meditation bells, off-balance meters, triplet snarls for the floating dagger, and odd intervallic leaps in instrumental and vocal lines kept the audience tingling.
Rodney Punt: The Mortal Thoughts of Lady Macbeth: A Chamber Opera of Horrors at Fais Do-Do 2010
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And I was singing it really out of tune, so I was trying to think what is the most removed intervallic relationship I could find.
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