A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Quinta Falsa

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2291498A Dictionary of Music and Musicians — Quinta FalsaGeorge GroveWilliam Smyth Rockstro

QUINTA FALSA (False Fifth). The forbidden Interval, between Mi, in the Hexachordon durum, and Fa, in the Hexachordon naturale the Diminished Fifth of modern Music. [See Mi contra Fa.]

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