10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SESQUITERTIA»
Discover the use of
sesquitertia in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
sesquitertia and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Patrologiae Cursus Completus: Series Latina: Sive, ...
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sesquitertia . sesquialterav llli-Sch cnordlshconsistunh tenet memor-item ipse
quoque A ncxione llauh semper. l SSS tuo additaque octava cum octava diametri
...
2
A General History Of The Science and Practice Of Music: In ...
As e was to be sesquitertia of aa, and had not a third part, they multiplied all the
second order by 3 ; from which multiplication was produced tbe third order, and
there came out the number 256, sesquitertia of 192 ; in like manner d was found
to ...
3
General history of the science and practice of music. [With] ...
When they wanted therefore to demonstrate in ' the constitution of the system
what chord was either ' double, or sesquialtera, or sesquitertia, or sesqui- ' octave
to another by arithmetical numbers, they * used multiplication, or the doubling of ...
4
The Harmony of the Spheres: The Pythagorean Tradition in Music
The greatest string comparedtothe nextsmallest, representing 8 units, sounded
thefifth,and he proved thatthey were in sesquitertia ratio, that being theratioofthe
weights. Then he compared itto the next one, withregard to the weightit supported
.
5
On the Art of Building in Ten Books
Thus the length is twice the width plus a further double tonus.94 Another
intermediate area is the double sesquitertia, constructed by precisely the same
method; this produces a width of nine to a length of sixteen. Thus the greater line
is twice ...
Leon Battista Alberti, 1988
6
Pythagoras: His Life and Teaching, a Compendium of Classical ...
He discovered that proportionably to the weights, this concord was sesquitertia,
which string to nine pounds is naturally sesquialtera to the least. For nine to six is
so (viz. sesquialtera) as the least but one, which is eight, was to that which had ...
Thomas Stanley, James Wasserman, 2010
7
The "Musica Instrumentalis Deudsch" of Martin Agricola: A ...
63v of the 1545 edition divid' hammer with the hammer, into I F: dupla T:
sesquioctava A: sesquioctava B \ : sesquioctava B ^: sesquitertia C: sesquitertia
D: sesquitertia D#: sesquitertia E: sesquitertia V proportion fourth \ [See Appendix
26 for a ...
Martin Agricola, William E. Hettrick, 1994
8
A plain and easy introduction to practical music ...: ...
As for Sesquitertia, Sesquiquarta and such like, it were folly to make many words
of them, seeing they be altogether out of vse, and it is a matter almost impossible
to make sweet mufick in that kind. Yet is sesquitertia one of the hardest ...
9
A General History of Music, from the Earliest Times to the ...
The system of both was called diapason, that is, both of the diapente and
diatesseron joined together, as double proportion is compounded of sesquialtera
and sesquitertia; such as are twelve, eight, six, or on the contrary, of diatesseron
and ...
10
A Performer's Guide to Medieval Music
where a sesquitertia proportion (indicated by the proportion sign D) in the
superius of Busnoys's Regina celt /near the opening of the secunda pan requires
a shift of mensura for both voices. (At mm. 78-81 the lower voice is barred in 3/2
for ...
