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Semidiapente
Semˊi-diˊa-pen′te
,Noun.
(Mus.)
An imperfect or diminished fifth.
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semidiapente
semidiapente
English
Noun
semidiapente (plural semidiapentes)
- (music, archaic) A diminished fifth.
- Vincenzo Galilei, Dialogue on Ancient and Modern Music (translated from Italian by Claude V. Palisca)
- It will have its true ratio from the tritone and the major semitone, but not from that of the semidiapente and the minor semitone, as the next calculation shows.
- Vincenzo Galilei, Dialogue on Ancient and Modern Music (translated from Italian by Claude V. Palisca)