tierce de Picardie
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French tierce de Picardie.
Noun
tierce de Picardie (plural tierces de Picardie)
- (music) a major third in the final tonic chord of a minor-key passage, a device mostly used in Baroque, although occasionally in Classical music, and then adopted much later on in neoclassicism.
Synonyms
- Picardy third
Translations
final major third
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