10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HEPTACHORD»
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heptachord in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities
The preceding representation of a tetrachord and the following one of a
heptachord are both taken from the work of Blanchini. The heptachord introduced
by Tcrpander henceforth continued to be most commonly used by the Greeks as
well as ...
2
An original and condensed grammar of harmony, counterpoint, ...
the Jifth of the primitive heptachord. Now, if the reader writes at the top of a large
sheet of paper, in the middle of its width, any heptachord which he will have
selected as primitive, adding to it the octave of its tonic ; and if he writes on the left
...
Jos. Joach. de Virués y Spínola, 1850
3
Mathematics and Computation in Music: Third International ...
By a spelled heptachord we mean a letter-distinct spc set of cardinality 7. Letter-
distinctness ensures that each letter name appears exactly once in every spelled
heptachord. The spc numbers of the notes therefore include one representative ...
Carlos Agon, Emmanuel Amiot, Moreno Andreatta, 2011
4
Musical Form and Transformation: Four Analytic Essays
David Lewin. a chromatic pentachord (beamed solid notcheads, stems up) and a
chromatic heptachord (beamed solid noteheads, stems down.4 The pentachord
comprises the “correct” notes of BACH plus Oil. The new configuration for mm.
5
Intervals, Scales, Tones and the Concert Pitch C
A heptachord consisting of two connected Dorian tetrachords was therefore the
principal or fundamental scale of the Apollonian true-tone stream14 (see chapter
12). The development ot the Dorian heptachord is described as follows in Greek
...
6
New Chapters in the History of Greek Literature, Second ...
The writer discusses a heptachord scale formed by t\vo tetrachords conjoined in
such a way that the top note of the one is the lowest note of the other. From the
first words of the fragment it seems that a diatonic form for such a heptachord was
...
John Undershell Powell, Eric Arthur Barber, 1929
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The Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Review
compass of which was that of an octave, without the fourth. This scale was called
a heptachord, from hepta chorde, seven strings. The intervals of this scale were
arranged in the order of tone, tone, tone-and-a-half, tone, tone, and semitone, ...
8
History of the literature of ancient Greece
Hence the heptachord of Terpander long remained in high repute, and was
employed by Pindar ; although in his time the deficient string of the lower
tetrachord had been supplied, and an octachord produced t- § 4. It will he
convenient in this ...
Karl Otfried Müller, 1840
Heptachord, a scale succession of seven notes. Our descending minor scale
consists of the Heptachord of Terpander, completed by the addition of a note
below it ; and this Heptachord contains two tetrachords. See Tetrachord.
Hexachord ...
10
Lore and Science in Ancient Pythagoreanism
Nicomachus makes a twofold, and very tortuous, explanation of Philolaus'
enigmatic Trite:30 By Trite he means here the Paramese in the heptachord,
before the insertion of the dividing tone in the octachord, (i) This [i.e. the Trite =
Paramese] ...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HEPTACHORD»
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heptachord is used in the context of the following news items.
Students Share Political Messages Through Art
WASHINGTON— In the wide open space of a quiet atrium, art student Gabriel Mellan shows off his heptachord, a seven-sided sculpture made ... «Voice of America, Apr 13»
Visiting Zhouzhuang
You can learn the culture and history of heptachord, a kind of ancient Chinese musical instrument, and enjoy its pleasant sound in a club. «China Daily, Jan 13»
