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Meaning of "hexachord" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HEXACHORD

hexachord  [ˈhɛksəˌkɔːd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HEXACHORD

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preposition
conjunction
determiner
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Hexachord is a noun.
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WHAT DOES HEXACHORD MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Hexachord

In music, a hexachord is a six-note series, as exhibited in a scale or tone row. The term was adopted in this sense during the Middle Ages and adapted in the 20th century in Milton Babbitt's serial theory. The word is taken from the Greek: ἑξάχορδος, compounded from ἕξ and χορδή, and was also the term used in music theory up to the 18th century for the interval of a sixth.

Definition of hexachord in the English dictionary

The definition of hexachord in the dictionary is any of three diatonic scales based upon C, F, and G, each consisting of six notes, from which solmization was developed.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HEXACHORD


bichord
ˈbaɪˌkɔːd
clarichord
ˈklærɪˌkɔːd
clavichord
ˈklævɪˌkɔːd
decachord
ˈdɛkəˌkɔːd
harmonichord
hɑːˈmɒnɪˌkɔːd
harpsichord
ˈhɑːpsɪˌkɔːd
heptachord
ˈhɛptəˌkɔːd
misericord
mɪˈzɛrɪˌkɔːd
misericorde
mɪˈzɛrɪˌkɔːd
monochord
ˈmɒnəʊˌkɔːd
needlecord
ˈniːdəlˌkɔːd
notochord
ˈnəʊtəˌkɔːd
octachord
ˈɒktəˌkɔːd
pentachord
ˈpentəˌkɔːd
ripcord
ˈrɪpˌkɔːd
subchord
ˈsʌbˌkɔːd
tetrachord
ˈtɛtrəˌkɔːd
trichord
ˈtraɪˌkɔːd
urochord
ˈjʊərəʊˌkɔːd
whipcord
ˈwɪpˌkɔːd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HEXACHORD

hexachlorethane
hexachloride
hexachlorocyclohexane
hexachloroethane
hexachlorophane
hexachlorophene
hexacosanoic acid
hexact
hexactinal
hexactinellid
hexad
hexadactylic
hexadactylous
hexadecane
hexadecanoic acid
hexadecimal
hexadecimal notation
hexadic
hexaemeric
hexaemeron

WORDS THAT END LIKE HEXACHORD

added sixth chord
altered chord
broken chord
chord
common chord
dichord
diminished seventh chord
dominant seventh chord
eleventh chord
inverted chord
major seventh chord
minor seventh chord
ninth chord
rheochord
seventh chord
sixth chord
thirteenth chord

Synonyms and antonyms of hexachord in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «hexachord» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HEXACHORD

Find out the translation of hexachord to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of hexachord from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hexachord» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

hexachord
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

hexachord
570 millions of speakers

English

hexachord
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

hexachord
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

hexachord
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

hexachord
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

hexachord
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ষট্তন্ত্রী বাদ্যযন্ত্রবিশেষ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

hexacorde
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Hexachord
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Hexachords
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

hexachord
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

hexachord
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hexachord
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hexachord
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

hexachord
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हेक्झार्ड
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

hexachord
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

esacordo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

hexachord
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

hexachord
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

hexachord
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

hexachord
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

hexachord
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hexachord
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hexachord
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hexachord

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HEXACHORD»

The term «hexachord» is used very little and occupies the 164.573 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HEXACHORD» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hexachord

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HEXACHORD»

Discover the use of hexachord in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hexachord and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory
Example 13.1 Solmization in cantus durus and cantus mollis NB: black noteheads signal hexachordal mutation CailtUS durus natural hexachord natural hexachord hard hcxachord hard hexachord hard hexachord ut re mi fa sol/re mi fa sol ...
Thomas Christensen, 2002
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Composition, Chromaticism and the Developmental Process: A ...
The pursuit of a new freedom of expression could be satisfied only by an expanded chromatic vocabulary, one which quickly outgrew the limitations of the language of diatonic modality. III. The Medieval Gamut and Three-Hexachord- System ...
Henry Burnett, Roy Nitzberg, 2007
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A Performer's Guide to Renaissance Music
B is not found at all in the natural or soft hexachords, while in the hard hexachord it is a mi, related to the C above it as a half of the mi-fa semitone.Similarly, Bb is only found once,in the soft hexachord,where it is called fa, and functions as the ...
Jeffery T. Kite-Powell, 2007
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The Collected Essays of Milton Babbitt
Milton Babbitt Stephen Peles, Stephen Dembski, Andrew Mead, Joseph N. Straus. hexachord. Such set structure is employed by Schoenberg to provide a means for combining inversionally related set forms to create aggregates and ...
Stephen Peles, Milton Babbitt, Stephen Dembski, 2011
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Milton Babbitt: Words about Music
All four of those trichords, as different as they are, generate that hexachord. There's no other way that you can order that particular kind of hexachord (or, in circle of fifths transform, the diatonic hexachord) that will give you four different trichords ...
Stephen Dembski, Milton Babbitt, Joseph N. Straus, 1987
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The Performance of 16th-Century Music: Learning from the ...
Perhaps this is easier to put into practice if one understands this as meaning that whenever you reach the lowest note of the new hexachord within the old one (C or fa within a G hexachord, G or sol within in a C hexachord) the following note ...
Anne Smith, 2011
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Stravinsky's Late Music
Example 3.10 Directed transposition within a rotational array (a) first hexachord of the I-form of the series for A Sermon, a Narrative, and a Prayer (b) hexachord rotated and then transposed (c) entire rotational array (a) 11 4 10 i 37 I B D Gt E F  ...
‎2004
8
Symbolic Scores: Studies in the Music of the Renaissance
The tenor, which is silent for the first 34 bars, enters with the invocation "Virgo Maria", set as an ascending hexachord in breves. The six statements of the soggetto are equally divided over the two partes and have the following proportional ...
Willem Elders, 1994
9
Mathematics and Computation in Music: First International ...
Elliott Carter's recent music exploits a special combinatorial property of the all- trichord hexachord. I show how this property can be reconceived in terms of interesting and analytically significant musical transformations: three involutions on the ...
Timour Klouche, Thomas Noll, 2009
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The Theoretical-Practical Elements of Music, Parts III and IV
letter in the fourth hexachord G, a, b, c, d, e, but rather a semitone lower— exactly as happened in the Greek tetrachord synemmenon—by comprising this new hexachord, which was the third, of the pitches F, G, a, b, c, d. In order to render this ...
Deborah Burton, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HEXACHORD»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hexachord is used in the context of the following news items.
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Peter Serkin in recital review: Journey to the inner self
... great collection of early English keyboard music, the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, including a meandering, meditative hexachord fantasia (that is ... «Sydney Morning Herald, May 15»
2
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
by Hexachord Thursday, September 25, 2014 at 02:31 AM. Yawn. So much yawn. by McCola Thursday, September 25, 2014 at 07:57 AM. «Game Informer, Sep 14»
3
Shaq Asks, 'What If?' In MyTeam Trailer For NBA 2K15
by Hexachord Saturday, September 13, 2014 at 03:11 AM. What if... 2K stopped using assets from 2005 and actually made a game that looked ... «Game Informer, Sep 14»
4
King of Wushu
I don't think about Sony at all, just enjoying my system of choice. by Hexachord Thursday, July 31, 2014 at 05:28 PM. A MOBA!?!? Super lame. «Game Informer, Jul 14»
5
Madden NFL 15
by Hexachord Friday, June 06, 2014 at 02:40 PM. Those graphics looked AMAZING.... in 2005. by Squishie Friday, June 06, 2014 at 04:04 PM. «Game Informer, Jun 14»
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Batman: Arkham Knight
by Hexachord Wednesday, May 21, 2014 at 09:16 AM. SO glad this game won't be held back by last gen consoles. by Palor Wednesday, May ... «Game Informer, May 14»
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Video From The Darth Maul Game You'll Never Get To Play
Submit. [+] View Conversation (0). Avatar. by Hexachord Thursday, April, 10, 2014 at 10:47. I would have purchased the hell outta this game. «Game Informer, Apr 14»
8
Oakland's Holy Names Preserves America's Folk Music, Digitally
So if you wanted an African-American spiritual with Southern roots, using a hexachord scale and a strophic form with refrain, you will find it. «KQED, Jan 14»
9
András Schiff: Music Starts Where Words Fail
... we have G major, A minor, B-flat major, C minor, D major, E minor; a hexachord. Also, one piece in a major key [is] followed by one in minor. «San Francisco Classical Voice, Oct 13»
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Mahan Esfahani, Wigmore Hall/Joseph Reuben, Petersham House
His Hexachord Fantasia crafts a massive contrapuntal dialogue out of a simple opening gambit and it unfolded here with sonorous clarity ... «The Arts Desk, May 13»

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