Etymology

tintinnabuli

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Today it means: A compositional style characterized by two types of voice, the first of which (the "tintinnabular voice") arpeggiates the tonic triad, and the second of which moves diatonically in stepwise motion. Full definition →

Latin tintinnābulum
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromtintinnābulum“a small monastic bell”
  2. English todaytintinnabuli

From Latin tintinnābulum (“a small monastic bell”).

Words from the same roots

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