qenet

plural qenets

1. A kind of secular musical scale developed by the Amhara ethnic group of Ethiopia.

   Qenet is an interval set which can be loosely translated as mode.

   1997, Katsuyoshi Fukui, Eisei Kurimoto, Masayoshi Shigeta, editors, Ethiopia in Broader Perspective: Papers of the XIIIth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, Kyoto, 12-17 December 1997, volume 3, Shokado Book Sellers, →ISBN, page 115

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   Almost invariably the music is in a pentatonic scale, most commonly the qenet mode of the central highlands, which is characterized by long intervals between notes and takes four main forms, the best known being tizita.

   2015, The Rough Guide to Ethiopia, Penguin, →ISBN, page 173