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Change :: Change (v. t.) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale..

Atonic :: Atonic (n.) An element of speech entirely destitute of vocality, or produced by the breath alone; a nonvocal or surd consonant; a breathing..

Stich :: Sticcado (n.) An instrument consisting of small bars of wood, flat at the bottom and rounded at the top, and resting on the edges of a kind of open box. They are unequal in size, gradually increasing from the smallest to the largest, and are tuned to the diatonic scale. The tones are produced by striking the pieces of wood with hard balls attached to flexible sticks..

Enharmonical :: Enharmonical (a.) Of or pertaining to that one of the three kinds of musical scale (diatonic, chromatic, enharmonic) recognized by the ancient Greeks, which consisted of quarter tones and major thirds, and was regarded as the most accurate..

Octave :: Octave (n.) The whole diatonic scale itself.

Platonical :: Platonical (a.) Pure, passionless; nonsexual; philosophical..

Stratotic :: Stratonic (a.) Of or pertaining to an army.

Peal :: Peal (n.) A set of bells tuned to each other according to the diatonic scale; also, the changes rung on a set of bells..

Diatonic :: Diatonic (a.) Pertaining to the scale of eight tones, the eighth of which is the octave of the first..

Atonic :: Atonic (a.) Unaccented; as, an atonic syllable..

Seventh :: Seventh (n.) An interval embracing seven diatonic degrees of the scale.

Platonic :: Platonic (a.) Alt. of Platonica.

Tone :: Tone (n.) The larger kind of interval between contiguous sounds in the diatonic scale, the smaller being called a semitone as, a whole tone too flat; raise it a tone..

Re :: Re () A syllable applied in solmization to the second tone of the diatonic scale of C; in the American system, to the second tone of any diatonic scale..

Enharmonical :: Enharmonical (a.) Pertaining to a scale of perfect intonation which recognizes all the notes and intervals that result from the exact tuning of diatonic scales and their transposition into other keys.

Surd :: Surd (a.) Uttered, as an element of speech, without tone, or proper vocal sound; voiceless; unintonated; nonvocal; atonic; whispered; aspirated; sharp; hard, as f, p, s, etc.; -- opposed to sonant. See Guide to Pronunciation, //169, 179, 180..

Platonize :: Platonize (v. t.) To explain by, or accomodate to, the Platonic philosophy..

Fa :: Fa (n.) A syllable applied to the fourth tone of the diatonic scale in solmization.

Gradation :: Gradation (n.) A diatonic ascending or descending succession of chords.

Neoplatonist :: Neoplatonist (n.) One who held to Neoplatonism; a member of the Neoplatonic school.

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