Intervallic

//ɪntəˈvælɪk// adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of, or pertaining to, intervals.

    "The two Integrations of 1967 are the most intervallic of the selections here, emphasizing minor ninths and “minor” fifths (13 quarter tones), and, in the second Integration, setting up simultaneous “rotations” of descending and ascending “minor” fifths."

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"The two Integrations of 1967 are the most intervallic of the selections here, emphasizing minor ninths and “minor” fifths (13 quarter tones), and, in the second Integration, setting up simultaneous “rotations” of descending and ascending “minor” fifths."

Etymology

From intervall(um) + -ic.

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