Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypate
Literary usage of Hypate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch (1874)
"For by the same parts of themselves they exceed and are exceeded ; that is, the
extremes (nete and hypate) exceed and are exceeded by mese and ..."
2. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom by Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) (1834)
"E hypate MESON. ... that the extreme notes of the four tetrachords (which, as
extreme, were generally the notes termed hypate and nete) were fixed, ..."
3. On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music by Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, Alexander John Ellis (1885)
"The scales or tropes of the best Greek period have hitherto been considered as
essential, that is, the lowest tone or hypate has been considered as the ..."
4. The Harmony of the World by Johannes Kepler, E. J. Aiton, A. M. Duncan, Judith Veronica Field (1997)
"The note of the hypate was the lowest, and it seems to have been called by that
name from ... And since Aristotle asserts that between the hypate and the ..."
5. The American History and Encyclopedia of Music by Janet M. Green, Josephine Thrall (1908)
"See also Ambrosian chant. hypate ... Also applied to the lowest tetra- chord or
group of four tones, in the ancient Greek scale. hypate ..."
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