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Quartal

In music or music theory, quartal is the quality of a chord made from fourths, and other things constructed from fourths, such as counterpoint.

Chords which may be considered as built from fifths, called quintal, because of inversion, are actually quartal.

See also: secundal, tertian, polychord

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