TREBLE (a doublet of " triple," three-fold, from Lat. triplus, triple; cf. " double " from duplus)

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TREBLE (a doublet of " triple," three-fold, from Lat. triplus, triple; cf. " double " from duplus) , the

term

TERM

applied, in music, to the high or acute

part

PART

of the musical

system

SYSTEM

, as opposed to and distinguished from the "

bass

," the

lower

LOWER

or grave

part

PART

. The middle C is the

practical

PRACTICAL

division between the parts. The word is also used as equivalent to the " soprano " voice, the highest pitch or range of the human voice, but generally it is confined to a boy's voice of this quality, " soprano " being used of the corresponding

female

FEMALE

voice. The treble-clef is the G-clef on the second line. The origin of this application of the

term

TERM

" treble," triplus, threefold, to the highest voice or part is due to the fact that in the early plain-song the

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

melody was given to the

tenor

TENOR (through Fr. and It. from Lat. tenor, holding on, course, sense of a law,
tone
- TONE, THEOBALD WOLFE (1763-1798)
)

, the second part to the alto (discantus) and where a third part (triplum) was added it was assigned to the highest voice, the soprano or treble.

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