trichord

A sequence of three 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.

[from John Chalmers, Divisions of the Tetrachord]

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