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DIAPASON DIATESSARON

Volume 4 · 50 words · 1778 Edition

in music, a compound concord founded on the proportion of 8 to 3. To this interval Martianus Capella allows 8 tones and a semitone; 17 semitones, and 34 dieses. This is when the voice proceeds from its first to its eleventh sound. The moderns would rather call it the eleventh.