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Encyclopedia of Microtonal Music Theory

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trichord

[John Chalmers, Divisions of the Tetrachord]

A sequence of three [musical] tones spanning a Perfect Fourth.

Two trichords and a whole tone make a pentatonic scale, from which hexatonic and heptatonic scales may be derived by dividing one of the intervals in each trichord.

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