diezeugmenon

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English

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek διεζευγμένων (diezeugménōn, of the transposed (notes)), aorist passive participle of διαζεύγνυμι (diazeúgnumi), from ζεύγνυμι (zeúgnumi).

Noun

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diezeugmenon (plural diezeugmena)

  1. (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.