quintina

English

Noun

quintina

  1. (music) A Sardinian vocal technique in which four performers produce an apparent fifth voice.
    • 2013, Regula Burckhardt Qureshi, Music and Marx: Ideas, Practice, Politics, page 152:
      The quartet singing the liturgical music hears a fifth voice, the quintina, emerge — an acoustic effect of combined overtones, or so one might rationalize.
    • 2017, Ardian Ahmedaja, European Voices III, page 132:
      […] often he experiences that the performance has an excellent amalgam also without the quintina, because he can feel the situation of "mutual harmony between himself and his friends" […]

Italian

Noun

quintina f (plural quintine)

  1. quintuplet
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