septolen.
/ˈsɛptəʊl/, U.S. /ˈsɛpˌtoʊl/ Music.
A group of seven notes, or notes and rests, to be played in the time of a smaller number of notes of the same kind, and usually designated by a figure 7.septuplet n. 1b is now the more common term.
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hemiolia1597
triplet1786
septole1825
sextole1829
septimole1841
octuplet1852
septuplet1853
sextuplet1853
quintole1870
quadruplet1873
quintuplet1873
nonuplet1876
sextolet1876
triole1880
quintolet1884
triolet1888
1825 J. F. Danneley Encycl. Music Septole, passages of seven notes of equal length, grouped together, and performed to the time of a crotchet.
1841 J. F. Warner tr. G. Weber Gen. Music Teacher iii. 107 In the course of a piece of music, our rhythmical sense sometimes tolerates quintoles, septoles [Ger. Septolen], and the like.
1911 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 279/2 Among the worst barbarisms in musical editing is the persistent reduction of Chopin's septoles, groups of 13 and other indeterminables, into mutton-cutlet frills.
1997 B. Mittler Dangerous Tunes iv. 352/2 The enormous leaps in the septoles of the flute part can again be explained in the characteristic intervals.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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