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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In ancient Greek music, the lowest tone of the disjunct tetrachord: so called because it lay next to (above) the tone mese. Its pitch was probably about that of the B next below middle C. See
tetrachord .
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[Note 8: Codd. _diatessaron_, which is impossible, paramese being the concord of the fourth to the chromatic meson, and identical with the chromatic synhemmenon.] 5.
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
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