Lexicographical Neighbors of Hemiolic
Literary usage of Hemiolic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essays Philological and Critical: Selected from the Papers by James Hadley (1873)
"If the ratio was hemiolic, we should expect five beats for the compound ...
testimony that these hemiolic feet received four beats instead of five. ..."
2. Aristoxenou Harmonika stoicheia =: The harmonics of Aristoxenus by Aristoxenus, Henry Stewart Macran (1902)
"... while from the lowest chromatic to that of the hemiolic chroma is one-twelfth
of a tone. But as a quarter 26 consists of three-twelfths, ..."
3. Aristoxenoy Armonika Stoicheia: The Harmonics of Aristoxenus by Aristoxenus, Henry Stewart Macran (1902)
"... to the lowest chromatic is one-sixth of a tone; while from the lowest chromatic
to that of the hemiolic chroma is one-twelfth of a tone. ..."
4. The Verse of Greek Comedy by John Williams White (1912)
"... the hemiolic. According to the doctrine of Aristoxenus,1 isomeric compound
feet may extend to a length of sixteen primary times, ..."
5. The Classical World by Classical Association of the Atlantic States (1916)
"... the hemiolic rhythm. The author does not, in fact, speak of any difficulty as
to the rhythm, ..."
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