Meaning of qenet | Babel Free

Definitions

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

Examples

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

“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.”

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