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(music) To sing in the fifth voice in a polyphonic melody. / (transitive) To support something fifth, after four others have already done so. / (transitive, nonstandard) To divide by five.

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Source Word

fifth

IPA(Pronunciation)

/fɪfθ/

Verb

transitive nonstandard

(music) To sing in the fifth voice in a polyphonic melody. / (transitive) To support something fifth, after four others have already done so. / (transitive, nonstandard) To divide by five.

Japanese Meaning

(音楽) ポリフォニーの曲で、複数の声部における第5の声部を担当して歌うこと。 / (他動詞) 既に4つの支持者がある中で、更に第5として支持すること。 / (他動詞, 非標準) ある値を5で割ること、または5分割すること。

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At the madrigal rehearsal, she agreed to fifth the soprano line so the ensemble would have all five voices.

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マドリガルのリハーサルで、彼女はアンサンブルが五声すべてを揃えられるようにソプラノのパートを五声目として歌うことに同意した。

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(music) To sing in the fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.

Another extension of strict organum is 'fifthing'. Fifthing is a note-against- note method of creating a two-part texture by improvising a second voice over the given tune, starting and ending each musical phrase at the octave and proceeding mainly in fifths above the tune at others times.

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