septadecima

Definition of the Italian term septadecima in music:

  1. 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, "Terz" in German, "Decima" in Italian, and "Tertia" in Latin)
Language
Italian

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