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Meaning of "tetrachordal" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TETRACHORDAL

tetrachordal  [ˌtɛtrəˈkɔːdəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TETRACHORDAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tetrachordal is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES TETRACHORDAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of tetrachordal in the English dictionary

The definition of tetrachordal in the dictionary is relating to any of several groups of four notes in descending order, in which the first and last notes form a perfect fourth.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TETRACHORDAL


acaudal
eɪˈkɔːdəl
bicaudal
baɪˈkɔːdəl
bordel
ˈbɔːdəl
caudal
ˈkɔːdəl
caudle
ˈkɔːdəl
chordal
ˈkɔːdəl
concordal
kɒnˈkɔːdəl
dawdle
ˈdɔːdəl
doodle
ˈduːdəl
girdle
ˈɡɜːdəl
hurdle
ˈhɜːdəl
needle
ˈniːdəl
noodle
ˈnuːdəl
notochordal
ˌnəʊtəˈkɔːdəl
octachordal
ˌɒktəˈkɔːdəl
poodle
ˈpuːdəl
precaudal
priːˈkɔːdəl
strudel
ˈstruːdəl
subcaudal
sʌbˈkɔːdəl
urochordal
ˌjʊərəʊˈkɔːdəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TETRACHORDAL

tetra
tetrabasic
tetrabasicity
tetrabrach
tetrabranchiate
tetracaine
tetrachloride
tetrachloromethane
tetrachord
tetrachotomous
tetrachotomy
tetracid
tetract
tetractinal
tetractine
tetracyclic
tetracycline
tetrad
tetradactyl
tetradactylous

WORDS THAT END LIKE TETRACHORDAL

brake pedal
bridal
colloidal
dal
gold medal
homicidal
intermodal
Kendal
medal
modal
multimodal
nodal
pedal
sandal
scandal
sinusoidal
suicidal
tidal
vandal
Vidal

Synonyms and antonyms of tetrachordal in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «tetrachordal» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TETRACHORDAL

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

Translator English - Chinese

tetrachordal
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tetrachordal
570 millions of speakers

English

tetrachordal
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

tetrachordal
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

tetrachordal
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

tetrachordal
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tetrachordal
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

tetrachordal
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

tetrachordal
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tetrachordal
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

tetrachordal
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

tetrachordal
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

tetrachordal
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tetrachordal
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tetrachordal
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

tetrachordal
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

टेट्राचार्डल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

tetrachordal
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tetracordo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

tetrachordal
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

tetrachordal
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

tetrachordal
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

tetrachordal
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

tetrachordal
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tetrachordal
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tetrachordal
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tetrachordal

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TETRACHORDAL»

The term «tetrachordal» is barely ever used and occupies the 207.633 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TETRACHORDAL» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TETRACHORDAL»

Discover the use of tetrachordal in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tetrachordal and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Twelve-tone Tonality
5: Collections of tetrachords whose primary sum couples form tetra- chordal sums of 5 are transpositions of the sum-1 tetrachordal collections at T(l), T(4), T(7), and T(10); collections of tetrachords whose primary sum couples form tetrachordal ...
George Perle, 1977
2
Processes of Redemption and the Aesthetic of the Fragment in ...
7–9, which begins with pcs <8574> and redeems the tetrachordal row-form fragment articulated by the A clarinet in mm. 4–5 (see Figure 4-1 and Example 4- 2). The only other sounding part here is the piano as it softly plays octaves on pc 8.
Michael Wayne Chikinda, 2008
3
A History of Twentieth-Century Music in a ...
275 ff., cello, tetrachordal axes each of sum 3 (= 15–12); (b) scene 2, mm. 277– 281, voice, symmetrically related tetrachords of “Hope” row at sum 9. The one deviation from perfect symmetry is the displacement ofD≤ from its hypothetical ...
Elliott Antokoletz, 2014
4
On the sensations of tone as a physiological basis for the ...
A tetrachordal therefore contains 9 tones. Arranging them in order of Thirds, if we reject the two first or the two last tones we have two ordinary trichordals, but if we reject only the first and last tone we have a real tetrachordal scale. Sufficient ...
Hermann Ludwig F. von Helmholtz, 1875
5
On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the ...
A tetrachordal consists of one triad from each of four cells, of which the three first and three last separately form a decad. A tetrachordal therefore contains 9 tones. Arranging them in order of Thirds, if we reject the two first or the two last tones ...
Hermann L. F. Helmholtz, 2009
6
An Ancient Christian Hymn with Musical Notation: Papyrus ...
Solomon concludes that what guides the composer's decisions about melodic emphases in these Roman-era melodies is not the tonos in which he chooses to notate the piece but the octave species conceived as organized by tetrachordal ...
Charles H. Cosgrove, 2011
7
The Life and Twelve-Note Music of Nikos Skalkottas
a process based on the tetrachordal trope. All three movements are broadly built on various permutations of two closely connected and tonally imbued sets, S1 and S2,5 which are introduced in the first movement, Allegro moderato. Both sets  ...
Dr Eva Mantzourani, 2013
8
A Theoretical Investigation of Twelve-tone Rows, Harmonic ...
30 (1963) also features tetrachordal segmentation (Ex. 2-23, p. 173). Instrumentation, with the Wallace, "Alberto Ginastera: An Analysis," 247-48 and 251 comments on the tetrachordal nature and interval structure of this passage. Intervallic ...
Christopher Anderson Fobes, 2006
9
The String Quartets of Bela Bartok: Tradition and Legacy in ...
However, in the voice-leading events of the quartet, not all of the tetrachordal stages occur in local adjacency to each other. Rather, each tetrachordal stage occurs prominently at some significant structural point of the quartet. Furthermore, the ...
Daniel Peter Biro, Harald Krebs, 2014
10
The Listening Composer
Voice-leading possibilities in any progression of sum tetrachords derive from the differences between the combined sums of each of the four types of sum tetrachords comprised in an array. The present array gives us tetrachordal sums of 8 ...
George Perle, 1990

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TETRACHORDAL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tetrachordal is used in the context of the following news items.
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Backstage at The Utah Arts Festival 2015: Karén Hakobyan, Micky …
... many creative opportunities for integrating the unique aspects of Armenian music – notably the tetrachordal system embodied in the country's folk songs – into ... «The Utah Review, Jun 15»
2
Tigran Hamasyan - Mockroot
The influence of his homeland is still prevalent, with two arrangements of traditional Armenian folk-songs (Kars 1 & Kars 2), and tetrachordal melodies in ... «musicOMH.com, Jan 15»

REFERENCE
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