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Za :: Za (n.) An old solfeggio name for B flat; the seventh harmonic, as heard in the or aeolian string; -- so called by Tartini. It was long considered a false, but is the true note of the chord of the flat seventh..

Tremando :: Tremando (a.) Trembling; -- used as a direction to perform a passage with a general shaking of the whole chord.

Sagitta :: Sagitta (n.) The distance from a point in a curve to the chord; also, the versed sine of an arc; -- so called from its resemblance to an arrow resting on the bow and string..

Arpeggio :: Arpeggio (n.) The production of the tones of a chord in rapid succession, as in playing the harp, and not simultaneously; a strain thus played..

Keynote :: Keynote (n.) The tonic or first tone of the scale in which a piece or passage is written; the fundamental tone of the chord, to which all the modulations of the piece are referred; -- called also key tone..

Clavecin :: Clavecin (n.) The harpsichord.

Harmony :: Harmony (n.) A succession of chords according to the rules of progression and modulation.

Chordee :: Chordee (n.) A painful erection of the penis, usually with downward curvature, occurring in gonorrhea..

Polychord :: Polychord (a.) Having many strings.

Sequence :: Sequence (n.) Any succession of chords (or harmonic phrase) rising or falling by the regular diatonic degrees in the same scale; a succession of similar harmonic steps.

Chord :: Chord (n.) A right line uniting the extremities of the arc of a circle or curve.

Gradation :: Gradation (n.) A diatonic ascending or descending succession of chords.

Neurochordal :: Neurochordal (a.) See Neurocord.

Octochord :: Octochord (n.) See Octachord.

Invert :: Invert (v. t.) To change the position of; -- said of tones which form a chord, or parts which compose harmony..

Trichord :: Trichord (n.) An instrument, as a lyre or harp, having three strings..

Urochordal :: Urochordal (a.) Of or pertaining to the Urochorda.

Subtense :: Subtend (v. t.) To extend under, or be opposed to; as, the line of a triangle which subtends the right angle; the chord subtends an arc..

Heptachord :: Heptachord (n.) A composition sung to the sound of seven chords or tones.

Decachordon :: Decachordon (n.) Something consisting of ten parts.

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