[PW] Re: music terms

[Dan Clinton]

I had never heard of these terms myself. Properly, the missing items in your list would be nonal and dectal, HOWEVER:

I've asked a colleague who is a professional musician and MFA and he says that you seem to have confused systems and they seem dated. The more usual terminology for intervals in music is simple ordinals: second, third, fourth, fifth, etc. further qualified by variation, such as major, minor, augmented, diminished, suspended, etc.

To quote him: "...these are early baroque terms, mainly from Fux's early counterpoint book. The terms are dated. The new term is second, third, etc."

http://www.musictheory.net/

Dan Clinton / Census Library / Suitland, MD

>From: UmbraScit at aol.com
>Date: 2007/01/08 Mon AM 10:06:05 CST
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>Subject: [PW]  music terms

>I'm looking to complete the 1 - 10 sequence (actually, 2 - 10) for 
>interval/chord names. I have the ones listed below, culled from music sites on the 
>internet. Is it possible to fill in the missing items?   Any corrections?   
>Documentation?      Thanks in advance.
>
> 2.   secundal
> 3.   tertian
> 4.   quartal or quatral (?)
> 5.   quintal
> 6.   sextal
> 7.   septal
> 8.   octal
> 9.
>10.
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