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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Tetrachord \Tet"ra*chord\, n. [L. tetrachordon, Gr. [?], from [?] four-stringed; te`tra- (see {Tetra-}) + [?] a chord: cf. F. t[82]trachorde.] (Anc. Mus.) A scale series of four sounds, of which the extremes, or first and last, constituted a fourth. These extremes were immutable; the two middle sounds were changeable. | |
