meson

[Greek: "middle"]

The name of the intermediately-pitched tetrachord in ancient Greek music-theory. It forms the tetrachord descending from the central note, mese, in both the Greater and Lesser Pefect Systems, and actually is the middle tetrachord in the 3-tetrachord LPS.

see also:

my Tutorial on ancient Greek tetrachord-theory
hypaton
diezeugmenon
synemmenon
hyperbolaion

[from Joe Monzo, JustMusic: A New Harmony]

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