Kite's thoughts on generalizing the term tetrachord: Revision history

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  • curprev 08:5408:54, 26 October 2026 TallKite talk contribs 2,051 bytes +2,051 Created page with "In the original diatonic sense of the word, ''tetrachord'' means both "has 4 notes" and "spans a diatonic 4th". After all, a 4th is called a 4th because it's 4 notes of the diatonic scale. So it's really just two ways of saying the same thing. But when we go beyond diatonic to microtonal, or even just 12edo chromatic, only one of those two meanings can be kept. There's precedent for both usages (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrachord):<blockquote>The expression "chrom..." Tag: Visual edit
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