twenty-second Mus.
[twenty A. 1 b.]
A note 22 diatonic degrees distant from a given note, or the interval between two such notes (equal to three octaves); hence, an organ-stop formerly used, sounding three octaves above the normal pitch (more commonly called two-and-twentieth: see two B. I. 3 a).
| c 1700 in Grove Dict. Mus. II. 595/1 Great Organ. 1. Open Diapason... 13. Tierce. 14. Larigot. 15. Twenty-second. |