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  2. Tetrachord - Wikipedia

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    In music theory, a tetrachord (Greek: τετράχορδoν; Latin: tetrachordum) is a series of four notes separated by three intervals.In traditional music theory, a tetrachord always spanned the interval of a perfect fourth, a 4:3 frequency proportion (approx. 498 cents)—but in modern use it means any four-note segment of a scale or tone row, not necessarily related to a particular tuning ...

  3. Pyknon - Wikipedia

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    The notes of the central tetrachord of the system in ascending order are hypate, parhypate, lichanos (or hypermese), and mese. A second tetrachord is added above, after a disjunctive tone, and the corresponding names (together with the interval ratios of the standing tones) are: [6] mese (4:3) – nete (2:1) (standing) lichanos – paranete ...

  4. Rast pitch class set - Wikipedia

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    Tetrachord Note order Step to next note (Number of steps) Note name starting from Rast [1] Rast pentachord: Rast tetrachord: 1 T (9) Rast 2 K (8) Dügâh 3 S (5)

  5. Musical system of ancient Greece - Wikipedia

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    The first two of these are the same as the first two tetrachords of the Greater Perfect System, with a third tetrachord placed above the Meson. When all these are considered together, with the Synemmenon tetrachord placed between the Meson and Diezeugmenon tetrachords, they make up the Immutable (or Unmodulating) System (systema

  6. Hicaz pitch class set - Wikipedia

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    Tetrachord Note order Step to next note (Number of steps) Note name starting from Dügâh [1] Hicaz pentachord Hicaz tetrachord 1 S (5) Dügâh 2 A (12) Dik Kürdî 3

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  8. Genus (music) - Wikipedia

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    The double-flat symbol is used for modern notation of the third tone in the tetrachord to follow modern convention of keeping scale notes as a letter sequence, and to remind the reader that the third tone in an enharmonic tetrachord (say F, shown above) was not tuned quite the same as the second note in a diatonic or chromatic scale (the ...

  9. All-interval tetrachord - Wikipedia

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    An all-interval tetrachord is a tetrachord, a collection of four pitch classes, containing all six interval classes. [1] There are only two possible all-interval tetrachords (to within inversion), when expressed in prime form.