intervallic
English
editAlternative forms
edit- intervalic [19th century]
Etymology
editFrom intervall(um) + -ic.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editintervallic (comparative more intervallic, superlative most intervallic)
- (chiefly music) Of, or pertaining to, intervals.
- 1979, Joel Flegler, Fanfare, volume 3, numbers 1-3, self-published, page 161:
- 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.
References
edit- “intervallic, a.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]