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intervallic
intervallic
English
Alternative forms
- intervalic [19th century]
Adjective
intervallic (comparative more intervallic, superlative most intervallic)
- (chiefly music) Of, or pertaining to, intervals.
- 1979, Joel Flegler, Fanfare, volume 3, issues 1–3, page 161 (self-published)
- The two Integrations of 1967 are the most intervallic of the selections here, emphasizing minor ninths and “minor” fifths (13 quarter tones), and, in the second Integration, setting up simultaneous “rotations” of descending and ascending “minor” fifths.
- 1979, Joel Flegler, Fanfare, volume 3, issues 1–3, page 161 (self-published)
References
- “intervallic, a.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]