单词 | hendecachord |
释义 | > as lemmashendecachord hendecachord n. Brit. /hɛnˈdɛkəkɔːd/ , U.S. /hɛnˈdɛkəˌkɔrd/ (a) Music a series or scale of eleven notes; (b) (in ancient Greece) a musical instrument having eleven strings. [After tetrachord n., hexachord n.; compare French endécacorde (1727 or earlier), hendécacorde (1740 or earlier), Italian endecacordo (1581), and also ancient Greek ἑνδεκάχορδος eleven-stringed, post-classical Latin endecachordum series of eleven strings (6th cent.).] ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > system of sounds or intervals > [noun] > other scales hendecachord1761 pentachord1786 Scotch scale1786 maqam1793 pelog1817 harmonic scale1880 whole-tone scale1900 pentatonic1909 harmonic series1910 blues scale1939 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > [noun] > specific number of strings decachord?1567 quadrichord1585 decachordon1602 tetrachord1603 pentachord1721 heptachord1765 monochord1771 dichord1776 trichord1776 octachord1786 hendecachord1794 tone-measurer- 1761 F. H. E. Stiles in Philos. Trans. 1760 (Royal Soc.) 51 771 Two other suppositions, viz. that either the hendecachord or disdiapason was here meant. 1794 W. Beaumont tr. J.-J. Barthélemy Trav. Anacharsis (ed. 2) III. xxvii. 71 The endecachord [Fr. l'hendécacorde] was produced, composed of eleven strings. 1919 Musical Q. 5 605 (caption) Hendecachord chromatic. 1994 F. R. Levin in tr. Nicomachus Man. Harmonics xi. 162 Unlike Ion, who apparently had only to add a single string to produce a hendecachord, Timotheos was said to have added four strings at one time to the ancient heptachord. < as lemmas |
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