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Definition of Ditone
1. n. The Greek major third, which comprehend two major tones (the modern major third contains one major and one minor whole tone).
Definition of Ditone
1. Noun. (obsolete music) An interval of two tones ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ditone
1. an old musical scale interval [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ditone
Literary usage of Ditone
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Aristoxenou Harmonika Stoicheia =: The Harmonics of Aristoxenus by Aristoxenus, Henry Stewart Macran (1902)
"As this latter succession is unmelodious, a tone immediately below a ditone must
be equally so. A tone can be followed by a ..."
2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1834)
"Dr. Rush has measured the ascent of his ditone (as its name implies) by the ...
Dr. Rush's falling ditone resembles what Mr. Walker meant by HIS falling ..."
3. A Grammar of Elocution: Containing the Principles of the Arts of Reading and by Jonathan Barber (1830)
"In the use of the three phrases (the rising and falling ditone and monotone)
there are ample means for variety at pauses. They should be used in such ..."
4. A Grammar of Elocution: Containing the Principles of the Arts of Reading and by Jonathan Barber (1832)
"In the use of the three phrases (the rising and falling ditone and monotone)
there are ample means for variety at pauses. They should be used in such ..."
5. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom by Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) (1834)
"... a ditone, and not execrable, but even excellent ; but it will become obvious
to those who are introduced to it. To those who are sufficiently accustomed ..."
6. Analytic Elocution: Containing Studies, Theoretical and Practical, of by James Edward Murdoch (1884)
"The next pause at false is preceded by a rising ditone, because there is but a
... The fourth, at unterrified, has the falling ditone to denote a change and ..."
7. Practical Elements of Elocution by Robert Irving Fulton, Thomas Clarkson Trueblood, James Whitford Bashford (1903)
"There are two divisions of the ditone : the Rising and the Falling. (1) The Rising
ditone is that phrase of Melody in which the second of two syllables is ..."
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