tierce de Picardie

/ tjɛrs də pikardi /

noun

1. another term for Picardy third

Example Sentences

Most people falling in love with, say, Dido’s Lament by Henry Purcell – apparently the UK’s favourite aria – are unlikely to be getting their kicks from spotting that passus duriusculus; it’s probably not being able to identify the tierce de Picardie at the end of Dvorák’s New World Symphony that makes it endure.

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But the key finding, the resolution, the crescendo, the cadenza, the Tierce de Picardie — one is tempted to say — is that the Tsimane’ do not find the tritone any more or less pleasant than any other interval.

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Even the tierce de Picardie fails to liven up the last bar.

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