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Meanings of augmented fourth in English

Russian
ув. 4
Portuguese
quarta aumentada
Spanish
cuarta disminuida

Musical interval spanning four staff positions and 6 semitones.

ув. 4
Synonyms
Examples for "a4"
Examples for "a4"
1
Audi took, essentially, no risks at all when creating the current A4.
The Irish Times
2
There were no clone strains after A4; none had survived to maturity.
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
3
I chose the slightly more expensive A4 sheets over the bigger sizes.
Wired
4
He'd filled pages and pages of an A4 pad with notes though.
Radio NZ
5
These are not the A4-sized, glossy, free-DVD-inside commodities that dominate the newsstand.
The Irish Times
1
In the distance, Alex heard the rising tritone of sirens.
Nemesis Game
2
In music, a tritone describes the interval that splits an octave exactly in half.
Wired
3
The autodoc in the wall chimed in a calm tritone.
The Vital Abyss
4
And yet, there was a loud tritone, kicking off your experience with an early Macintosh.
Wired
5
A tritone chime announced the pilot, and her voice came over the shuttle's public-address system.
Cibola Burn
Usage of augmented fourth in English
1
The mazurka movement and the augmented fourth degree of the scale (Nos.
Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 2
2
Tritone, augmented fourth, known as "the devil in musick" from early medieval times.
John Winchester’s Journal
3
The melodic progression, not always immediate, of an augmented fourth and major seventh occurs frequently, and that of an augmented second occasionally.
Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 2
4
The oriental interval of the augmented fourth, which I scent in the "Mondlied," would be written, I think, more simply thus:-
Letters of Franz Liszt -- Volume 2 / from Rome to the End
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