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What does hexachord mean?

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Noun
  1. (music) A series of six tones denoted with the syllables ut-re-mi-fa-sol-la separated by seconds, the only of which that is a minor second being mi-fa.
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At the end, the same six pitch-classes provide the concluding hexachord of the tranquil violin melody.
In the early years of the seventeenth century, English composers increasingly turned to the hexachord as a cantus firmus for keyboard pieces.
For the fourth hexachord, which was called hard, this B was again raised a semitone.
To hear the scale of the hexachord sung for you is not something that can happen in a gallery space.

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