Lexicographical Neighbors of Diapentes
Literary usage of Diapentes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature by John Sullivan Dwight (1859)
"... And then with Vigoroso, let fly your diapentes About our nervous system ! "
There ! I have nothing more to say ! ..."
2. Geschichte der Musik by August Wilhelm Ambros, Gustav Nottebohm, B. von Sokolowsky, Carl Ferdinand Becker, Heinrich Reimann, Otto Kade (1893)
"... toni a sua finali integro diapentes intervallo. Namque primus tonus et secundus
regulariter terminatur in D sol re, ..."
3. The American Educational Monthly for the School and the Family (1864)
"It entirely diapentes with the sponge and witter in erasing mark* from the sime.
No longer need the teacher be annoyed by the oft-repeated question ..."
4. A Philosophical and Mathematical Dictionary: Containing an Explanation of by Charles Hutton (1815)
"... they called them Unisons ; but if they were as 2 to 1, they called them Octaves
or Diapasons ; when they were as 3 to 2, they called them diapentes, ..."
5. The Harmony of the World by Johannes Kepler, A. M. (Alistair Matheson) Duncan, Eric J. Aiton, Judith Veronica Field (1997)
"Kepler's reference to the diapente is puzzling, as the only imperfect diapentes
are ae and bf, both of which are narrow but not relevant to the present ..."
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