| 单词 | defective fifth |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdefective fifth 6. Music. Designating an interval that is one semitone less than the corresponding perfect interval. Chiefly in defective third, defective fourth, defective fifth, etc.Diminished, false, imperfect, and minor are alternative terms for such intervals. ΚΠ 1653 Ld. Brouncker tr. R. Descartes Excellent Compend. Musick 45 Third minor defective... Fifth defective by one Schism. 1659 C. Simpson Division-violist i. 16 A Greater Fourth, or Defective Fifth, hath this priviledge..to be joyned, sometimes, to the Basse, without Syncope, or Binding. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) at Semi-Diapason A Term in Musick, signifying a defective or imperfect Octave. 1730 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum at Semidiapente A defective Fifth, called a false Fifth. 1878 Eng. Mechanic & World of Sci. 2 Aug. 528/2 Why not do the same with the imperfect fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh? Any one of these intervals has as good a claim to adjustment as the defective third. 1908 W. L. Hubbard Musical Dict. 198/1 The result is a false fifth. Also called diminished, imperfect, flat, minor, or defective fifth. 1960 Jrnl. Music Theory 4 16 The defective third is found between the fifth and seventh of the chord (the term defective here signifies nothing whatever faulty regarding the function this third fulfills, or its position in the key system). 2004 D. Read Musica Ecclesiae I. 28/1 A defective eighth containing eleven semitones. < as lemmas |
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