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False relation is a noun.
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WHAT DOES FALSE RELATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

False relation

A false relation (also known as cross-relation, non-harmonic relation) is the name of a type of dissonance that sometimes occurs in classical polyphonic music, most commonly in vocal music of the Renaissance. The term describes i) a "chromatic contradiction" between two notes sounding simultaneously, (or in close proximity), in two different voices or parts or ii) in music written before 1600, the occurrence of a tritone between two notes of adjacent chords. Ex. 1, from Ave Verum Corpus, by William Byrd. Play (help·info) In the above example, a chromatic false relation occurs in two adjacent voices sounding at the same time (shown in red). The tenor voice sings G♯ while the bass sings G♮ momentarily beneath it, producing the clash of an augmented unison. Ex. 2, typical example of a false relation in the Late Baroque Style. Play (help·info) In this instance, the false relation is less pronounced: the contradicting E♭ (soprano voice) and E♮ (bass voice) (diminished octave) do not sound simultaneously.

Definition of false relation in the English dictionary

The definition of false relation in the dictionary is a harmonic clash that occurs when a note in one part sounds simultaneously with or immediately before or after its chromatically altered equivalent appearing in another part Also called : cross relation.

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Translator English - Chinese

虚假的关系
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

relación falsa
570 millions of speakers

English

false relation
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

झूठी संबंध
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Translator English - Arabic

علاقة كاذبة
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Translator English - Russian

ложное отношение
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

relação falsa
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Translator English - Bengali

মিথ্যা সম্পর্ক
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Translator English - French

fausse relation
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Translator English - Malay

Hubungan palsu
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Translator English - German

falschen Beziehung
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Translator English - Japanese

偽の関係
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거짓 의 관계
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Hubungan palsu
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mối quan hệ sai
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தவறான உறவு
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खोट्या संबंध
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Translator English - Turkish

Yanlış ilişki
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Translator English - Italian

falsa relazione
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fałszywe relacja
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raport fals
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ψευδείς σχέση
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valse verhouding
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falsk förhållande
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FALSE RELATION»

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Alfred Day's Treatise on Harmony
OF FALSE RELATION AS REGARDS FUNDAMENTAL HARMONY. Introduction. FALSE relation is here, as in Chapter III., divided into false relation between two notes sounded together, false relation between the first and third chords, and ...
Alfred Day, Sir George Alexander Macfarren, 1885
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A treatise on harmony
ON FALSE RELATION AS REGARDS FUNDAMENTAL HARMONY. Introduction. False relation Is here for the first time divided into, false relation between the first and third chords, and false relation between the first and second chords: in the ...
Alfred Day, 1845
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Alfred Day's Treatise on harmony
FALSE relation is here, as in Chapter 111., divided into false relation between _ two notes' sounded together, false relation between the first and third chords, and false relation between the first and second chords: in the second will be seen ...
G.A. Macfarren
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A treatise on counterpoint & fugue
other, lends itself by degrees to endure the effect of the false relation. Nevertheless, in a study of modern strict counterpoint, this chromatic movement should be as much as possible avoided. The Tritone is always, in melody, a false relation, ...
Luigi Cherubini, Joseph Bennett, 1884
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Harmony: Its Theory and Practice
The progression at (a) is called a False Relation. The note to be altered should therefore be kept in the same voice, as at (b). If this be done, no false relation occurs by another voice moving to the same note, as at (c). The false relation is also ...
Ebenezer Prout, 1903
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A treatise on harmony: with exercises
When this movement is not confined to one part, as in the following example at (6 ), the fault known as false relation arises, the i?-flat in the treble of the second chord being in false relation with the -B-natural in the alto of the first chord. To avoid ...
Joseph Humfrey Anger, Henry Clough-Leighter, 1919
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The Rudiments of Harmony: With Progressive Exercises and ...
False Relation. 20. False relation is when one part has a natural note, and another part has a sharp or flat note of the same name; either when both notes are sounded in the same chord — t£ i ii or when the two notes are sounded ^fc — =1 ...
Sir George Alexander Macfarren, 1890
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Practical harmony: a systematic course in fifty-four ...
FALSE RELATION. As modulation brings chords of distant keys into immediate contact with one another, it must inevitably also produce severe harmonic crudities. Yet, by a good progression of parts, these may in most cases be averted ; in ...
Ludwig Bussler, N. Gans, 1896
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A Course of Counterpoint and Fugue
By the assistance of these corrections, the false relation is in part or altogether eclipsed. In the other species of counterpoints, as we shall see, it is still more easy than in this to avoid the false relation of the tritonus. It now remains to ...
Luigi Cherubini, 1837
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Mystical Love in the German Baroque: Theology, Poetry, Music
For instance, on false relation (parrhesia) he writes: Zum andern geschicht solches auch in wenig Stimmen / wenn man einen trau- rigen Affectum oder Gemüthes=Regung dadurch exprimiret und ausdrücket / dergestalt / daß das Gehör nicht ...
Isabella Van, 2009

6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FALSE RELATION»

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Rachel Dolezal addresses her 'complex' white-African-American …
Ms Dolezal had claimed her father was Albert Wilkerson, a black man, but insists the false relation was not made in an effort to boost her civil ... «9news.com.au, Jun 15»
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Orfeo by Richard Powers review – Mahler, Messiaen and DNA
A possible faint dissonance or false relation here lies in the fact that, though we are told several times that Els's motto is "Music doesn't mean ... «The Guardian, Apr 14»
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On Not Going Home
That dissonance, with its distinctive Tudor sound, is partly produced by a movement known as 'false relation', in which the note you expect to ... «London Review of Books, Feb 14»
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Qubool Hai- Asad-Zoya's false engagement reveals before Mr …
Mumbai: After all issues of fake engagement of Zoya-Asad in Qubool Hai Mr. Dhurendar comes to know about the false relation of them. «Parda Phash, Apr 13»
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Medea, English National Opera
... an unexpectedly thickly-harmonised cadence in the strings, a tugging appoggiatura that clings just longer than expected, a false relation that ... «The Arts Desk, Feb 13»
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Classical review: Otello - Race plays second fiddle to suspicion
Here it was simply perfect, every breath of every bow sounding pure and true, each glance of a false relation scissoring through the textures, ... «The Independent, Jan 13»

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