10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HYPATE»
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hypate in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
hypate and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Harmony of the World
The antique The ancients, then, in the time of Aristotle107 enumerated the names
of the strings in the following way: Hypate [highest], Parhypate [next to highest],
Lichanos [forefinger], Mese [middle], Paramese [next to middle], Trite [third], ...
Johannes Kepler, E. J. Aiton, Alistair Matheson Duncan, 1997
Let there be, therefore, the consonance of the diapason that is contained
between hypate meson and nete diezeug- menon; each of these agrees with
each and also is joined together in sound so that one pitch — as if from one string
, not as if ...
Johannes Ciconia, Oliver B. Ellsworth, 1993
3
Greek Musical Writings: Volume 2, Harmonic and Acoustic Theory
And since an echo, too, is a sort of answering-song to a sound, and since when
neate is ceasing an echo identical with the note of hypate is aroused,73 it is to be
expected that neate seems to move hypate, because of the similarity. For we ...
4
General history of the science and practice of music. [With] ...
'81 to 76 ; and lastly by an incomplete trihemitone, ' in the ratio of 19 to 16 :• — c
PS o I — I — ^ a < es H Hypate meson Trihemitone, 16 to 19 : — Lychanos
hypaton Semitone, 7G to 81 □ Parypate hypaton Lesser semitone, 243 to 256
Hypate ...
5
A General History of the Science and Practice of Music
'776 — — Parypate hypaton H Lesser semitone, 243 to 256 8192 Hypate
hypaton his da - turn est A=H^p-U=^^^^^^ no - see Mis. genera is much too
copious to be inserted here ; it is therefore referred to a part of this work reserved
for an ...
6
Ancient Greece and Rome
Each of Aristoxenus' scales has at its core a tetrachord, a set of four notes
extending a fourth, with fixed notes at either end. The lower of the two fixed notes
was called hypate ̄ (topmost), evidently because the theorists envisioned the
scales ...
Thus, as we said before, nete consisting of twelve units, and hypate of six, the
paramese accords with hypate according to the sesquialter proportion, and has
nine units, whilst mese has eight units. So that the chiefest intervals through the ...
Plutarch, William Watson Goodwin, 1883
Thus, as we said before, nete consisting of twelve units, and hypate of six, the
paramese accords with hypate according to the sesquialter proportion, and has
nine units, whilst mese has eight units. 80 that the chiefest intervals through the ...
9
The Commentaries of Proclus on the Timaeus of Plato, in Five ...
And let it be nete or the last sound, which has a double ratio to hypate. But the
third sound must be placed equal to the first, second, and third. For it will be a
sound which will have a triple ratio to hypate, surpassing neie by as much as
nete ...
10
Dialogue on Ancient and Modern Music
What Steps Are Meant by "Hypate" and "Nete" Bardi. The majority of those who
have written about music, especially Aristotle, Ptolemy, Plutarch, Suidas, and
Boethius, speak in this way of these two strings.695 The locution is customary,
not ...
