triple-tongue

[trip-uhl-tuhng]

tri·ple-tongue

[trip-uhl-tuhng]
verb (used without object), tri·ple-tongued, tri·ple-tongu·ing. Music.
to interrupt the wind flow by moving the tongue as if pronouncing t and t and k successively, especially in playing rapid passages or staccato notes on a brass instrument.
Compare double-tongue.


Origin:
1900–05
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Triple-tongue is always a great word to know.
So is diminished chord. Does it mean:
dissonant chord
interval smaller by a chromatic half step than the corresponding major interval
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triple-tongue
 
vb
music single-tongue Compare double-tongue to play (very quick staccato passages of notes grouped in threes) on a wind instrument by a combination of single- and double-tonguing
 
triple tonguing
 
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