(Greek: "disjunct")
Tetrachord beginning a whole tone above Mese in the P.I.S.
see disjunct
[from John Chalmers, Divisions of the Tetrachord]
The name of one of the intermediately-pitched
tetrachords in the
Greater Pefect System
of ancient Greek music-theory.
The name describes the fact that the lowest note of this tetrachord (paramese) was separated by a tone from the highest note (mese) of the next tetrachord (meson) below it (in comparision with the tetrachord synemmenon, which was not separated).
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tetrachord diezeugmenon
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tone of disjunction <
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tetrachord meson
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see also:
[from Joe Monzo, JustMusic: A New Harmony]
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2003.02.19 -- added diagram
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