hexachord


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hexachord
n. medieval musical scale made up of six whole tone notes and one semitone note in the middle of the scale (devised by Guido d'Arezzo)


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Hexachord
In music, a hexachord, or gamut, is a six-note segment of a scale or tone row. The term was adopted in the Middle Ages and adapted in the twentieth-century in Milton Babbitt's serial theory.
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Hexachord
(n.)
A series of six notes, with a semitone between the third and fourth, the other intervals being whole tones.
  

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