Terz

Definition of the German term Terz in music:

  1. third (interval of three degrees)
  2. third (the note a third above the tonic of a scale or the root of a chord)
  3. Terce, Third Hour (canonical hour)
  4. organ flute mutation stop of 1⅗' pitch on the manuals (used with an 8' stop) and 3⅕' pitch on the pedals (used with a 16' stop), sounding a seventeenth (two octaves and a second) above the note played (equivalent to "Seventeenth" in English, "Tierce" in French, "Decima" in Italian, and "Tertia" in Latin)
Language
German
Singular
Terz
Plural
Terzen

Combinations

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