diezeugmenon
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Ancient Greek [Term?]
Noun[edit]
diezeugmenon (plural diezeugmena)
- (music) The last tetrachord, in the case where two tetrachords were placed separately from each other, but with only the interval of a tone between them.
- 1914, Vitruvius (translated by Morris Hicky Morgan), Ten Books on Architecture
- In the middle range, place first at the extreme ends the vessels which give the note of the chromatic hyperbolaeon; next to them, those which give the chromatic diezeugmenon, a fourth below; third, the chromatic synhemmenon; fourth, the chromatic meson, a fourth below; fifth, the chromatic hypaton, a fourth below; sixth, the paramese, for this is both the concord of the fifth to the chromatic hyperbolaeon, and the concord of the chromatic synhemmenon.
- 1914, Vitruvius (translated by Morris Hicky Morgan), Ten Books on Architecture