Enneachord

Quick meaning: Enneachord is a noun meaning An ancient Greek nine-stringed musical instrument.

Meaning

An ancient Greek nine-stringed musical instrument.

More Meanings

1. A musical interval of nine notes.
2. A chord played with nine notes.
3. A mystical chord or combination of nine entities that characterizes the music of the spheres.

Example Sentences

These dynamical systems "pluck" the seventh chords out of the all-combinatorial enneachord in sc 9-12 (9 through 12).

If we agree that the system consisted of 2 consecutive descending heptachords, or two conjunct enneachords, then we have theory applied to a specific instrument rather than pure theory.

He thinks of the creation as a grand symphony (see also figure 13), a notion we shall find diagrammed in figures 79-83; and here he explicates the universal harmony as ten "enneachords" — that is, a chord of nine notes.

But Aristoxenus calls the following foreign instruments — phœnices, and pectides, and magadides, and sambucæ, and triangles, and clepsiambi, and scindapsi, and the instrument called the enneachord or nine-stringed instrument.

Word Forms

• enneachords

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include decachord, octachord, polychord, dichord, pentachord, octochord.

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