Crossword-Solution: HEPTACHORD
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Heptachord | n. | A system of seven sounds. |
| Heptachord | n. | A lyre with seven chords. |
| Heptachord | n. | A composition sung to the sound of seven chords or tones. |
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Form of quartz with coloured bands
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Hint 1 meaning
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting
various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged
in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
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Sentences with HEPTACHORD (3)
The transition from the “one-wheeled car” of the oldest Veda, to which “one horse named seven was yoked” to the chariot of Apollo=“Seven,” whose lyre, with seven chords, struck the divine heptachord of the Pythagoreans, and who drove seven horses, coincides with that of the umbrella which, in Greece, was borne at the period of the summer solstice in the Skirophoria or “festival of the umbrella,” in honor of Athene.
This limited scale was extended by adding another tetrachord, which began with the last note of the first tetrachord, thus: A—B♭ C D E—F G A making a scale of seven sounds, called the scale of _Conjunct_ or _Joined Tetrachords_; also from its seven strings, the Heptachord scale.
The spheres revolve harmoniously; the seven planets are the seven golden chords of the heavenly heptachord.