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Definition of Ditones
1. ditone [n] - See also: ditone
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ditones
Literary usage of Ditones
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practical Elements of Elocution by Robert Irving Fulton, Thomas Clarkson Trueblood, James Whitford Bashford (1903)
"... that phrase in which the second of two syllables is sounded a tone below the
first.1 The following cut illustrates the various ditones : — Rising DITONE ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1818)
"The mode of computing in the first case I state to be by the semitone and whole
tones; in the second, by the semitone and ditones; and, in the third, ..."
3. Aristoxenou Harmonika Stoicheia =: The Harmonics of Aristoxenus by Aristoxenus, Henry Stewart Macran (1902)
"A succession of two ditones is forbidden. 64 Suppose such a succession ...
has been proved unmelodious, the succession of two ditones must be equally so. ..."
4. The Journal of Education for Ontario by Adolphus Egerton Ryerson, John George Hodgins, Adam Crooks, Ontario Dept. of Education (1868)
"The practice should vary from ditones to the full octave, and the pupil trained
to distinguish between ditones, thirds, fifths, and octaves. ..."
5. The Story of Notation by Charles Francis Abdy Williams (1903)
"orders of tones and semitones, or, in the chromatic and enharmonic genus, semitones
and quarter-tones, and ditones or minor thirds, as the case or Modes was ..."
6. Music (1899)
"So the Greek ideas of three genera, or tetrachords, or ditones instead of our
major thirds, of Pythagorean ratios, of divisions of the monochord, etc., ..."
7. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"So the Greek ideas of three genera, of tetrachords, of ditones instead of our
major thirds, of Pythagorean ratios, of divisions of the monochord, etc., ..."
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