Music
- The note ten scale degrees from the root (current note, in a chord).
- The interval (music), major or minor, (that is, gap) between the root and the tenth note, a compound major or minor third; an octave (seven scale degrees) plus a third.
- The chord (music) created by the root and the tenth (note).
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Famous quotes containing the word music:
“For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)
“Good music is very close to primitive language.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)
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—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)