Enneatonic

Quick meaning: Enneatonic is an adjective meaning (music) Based on nine tones.

Meaning

(music) Based on nine tones.

Example Sentences

Now the enneatonic diatonic descending genus, išartum: cbagfedcb consists of two junct pentachords: cbagf and: fedcb containing two octochords: cbagfedc and bagfedcb .

The complete pitch content of the opening seven measures is the enneatonic collection, the highly symmetrical nine-note mode of limited transposition that is the complement of an augmented triad.

In m.11 (ex. 6.4b), an eighth-note variant of this enneatonic fragment is harmonized by a half-diminished-seventh chord on A resolving to an A♭-major triad; as shown beneath the lower staff of example 6.4b, this harmonization generates an enneatonic collection different from that implied by the melody.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include decatonic, pentatonic, heptatonic, octatonic, twelve-note, hexatonic.

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