Usually means: Five-note scale or sequence.
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  1. pentachord: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. pentachord: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pentachord: Collins English Dictionary
  4. pentachord: Wordnik
  5. pentachord: Wiktionary
  6. Pentachord: Dictionary.com
  7. Pentachord (instrument), Pentachord: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Pentachord: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. pentachord: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Pentachord: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. pentachord: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. pentachord: Free Dictionary
  13. Pentachord: Dictionary/thesaurus

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pentachord)

▸ noun:  (music) Five notes (pitch classes) in a scale.
▸ noun:  A musical instrument with five strings.

Similar:
tetrachord, pentatonic scale, heptachord, octachord, trichord, decachord, pentatonic, pent, polychord, triad, more...

Opposite:
tetrachord, hexachord, heptachord, octachord

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Similar:
tetrachord, pentatonic scale, heptachord, octachord, trichord, decachord, pentatonic, pent, polychord, triad, more...

Opposite:
tetrachord, hexachord, heptachord, octachord



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