In Music
- In music, the Roman numeral iii is the mediant scale degree, chord, or diatonic function, when distinguished III = major and iii = minor.
- Three is the number of performers in a trio.
- There are 3 notes in a triad, the basic form of any chord.
- The tritone, which divides the octave into 3 equally spaced notes (root, tritone, octave).
- In Indian classical music, three equal repetitions of a rhythmic pattern is a common device called tihai.
- 3rd bridge, an extended technique on string instruments.
- "3", a 2009 number-one single by American recording artist Britney Spears.
- "Three French hens" is the gift on the third day of Christmas in the carol "The Twelve Days of Christmas"
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Famous quotes containing the word music:
“See where my Love sits in the beds of spices,
Beset all round with camphor, myrrh, and roses,
And interlaced with curious devices
Which her apart from all the world incloses!
There doth she tune her lute for her delight,
And with sweet music makes the ground to move,
Whilst I, poor I, do sit in heavy plight,
Wailing alone my unrespected love;”
—Bartholomew Griffin (d. 1602)
“La la la, Oh music swims back to me
and I can feel the tune they played
the night they left me
in this private institution on a hill.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)