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false relation

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.14 in modern English

Syllables
false re-la-tion
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A type of dissonance that sometimes occurs in classical polyphonic music, most commonly in vocal music of the Renaissance. It may be a chromatic contradiction between two notes sounding simultaneously (or in close proximity), in two different voices or parts; or the occurrence of a tritone between two notes of adjacent chords.

Inflected Forms

false relations (plural)

Questions

What does false relation mean?
A type of dissonance that sometimes occurs in classical polyphonic music, most commonly in vocal music of the Renaissance. It may be a chromatic contradiction between two notes sounding simultaneously (or in close proximity), in two different voices or parts; or the occurrence of a tritone between two notes of adjacent chords.

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