treble

CEFRB2

/ˈtɹɛbəl/

adjective · noun

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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The treble walls and ditches on the land side … diminish the extent of ground covered with houses.
A lofty tower, and strong on every side / With treble walls.
The voices include a counter (always below the tenor), a countertenor (moving above and below the tenor), mene, treble, and quadreble.

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A lofty tower, and strong on every side / With treble walls.
1697, John Dryden, chapter 6, in The Aeneid by Virgil
He starts out by saying that there are three sights, the mene, treble, and quadreble, but actually he discusses only two, the treble and quadreble, both of which are read at the transposition of an octave.
1959, The Musical quarterly - Volume 45, page xlvi
The voices include a counter (always below the tenor), a countertenor (moving above and below the tenor), mene, treble, and quadreble.
1991, Blanche Gangwere, Music history during the Renaissance period, 1425-1520, page 25
The counter involves transposition of the sighted note to the fifth below (for extremely low notes a twelfth), the mene and countertenor do not transpose, the treble transposes to the octave above, and the quadreble to the twelfth above.
2003, Willi Apel, Don Michael Randel, The Harvard Dictionary of Music, page 780
As for City, a domestic treble is off the cards and they must haul themselves off the floor quickly with the second leg of their last-16 Champions League tie against Barcelona on Wednesday.
2014 March 9, Jacob Steinberg, “Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals”, in The Guardian

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PIE word *tréyes From Middle English treble, from Old French treble, from Latin triplus. Doublet of triple.