quinquegrade
English
Adjective
quinquegrade (not comparable)
- (music) Of or relating to a kind of musical scale based on fifths.
- 1889, Sophie Willock Bryant, Celtic Ireland (page 205)
- One has only to play or sing this quinquegrade scale to be reminded forcibly, though vaguely, of Irish and Scotch music.
- 1889, Sophie Willock Bryant, Celtic Ireland (page 205)