Home1771 Edition

DIAPASON DIATESSARON

Volume 2 · 48 words · 1771 Edition

in music, a compound concord, founded on the proportion of $8:3$. To this interval Martianus Capella allows eight tones and a semitone, seventeen semitones, and thirty-four dieses.

This is when the voice proceeds from its first to its eleventh sound. The moderns would rather call it the eleventh.