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enneatonic

enneatonic adjective: based on nine tones.

Adjective

enneatonic (not comparable)

  1. Based on nine tones.
    • In m.11 (ex. 6.4b), an eighth-note variant of this enneatonic fragment is harmonized by a half-diminished-seventh chord on A resolving to an A♭-major triad; as shown beneath the lower staff of example 6.4b, this harmonization generates an enneatonic collection different from that implied by the...2005, William Kinderman, Katherine Rae Syer, A Companion to Wagner's Parsifal, →ISBN, page 226
    • Now the enneatonic diatonic descending genus, išartum: cbagfedcb consists of two junct pentachords: cbagf and: fedcb containing two octochords: cbagfedc and bagfedcb .2005, Richard J. Dumbrill, The Archaeomusicology of the Ancient Near East, →ISBN, page 53

Origin of enneatonic

From ennea- + tonic.

Questions about enneatonic

What does enneatonic mean?
Enneatonic means based on nine tones.
What part of speech is enneatonic?
Enneatonic is an adjective.

Words near enneatonic in the dictionary

  1. enneastylos
  2. enneasyllabic
  3. enneasyllable
  4. enneasyllables
  5. enneatical
  6. enneatonic
  7. enneatype
  8. enneatypes
  9. Enneking
  10. Ennekings
  11. ennemie

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