diesis
Origin of diesis
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How to use diesis in a sentence
The statement that the ancient diagrams gave a series of twenty-eight successive dieses or quarter-tones has not been explained.
The Modes of Ancient Greek Music | David Binning MonroIn the enharmonic, the tetrachord consists of two tones and two "dieses."
Ten Books on Architecture | VitruviusA diesis is a quarter tone; hence in a semitone there are included two dieses.
Ten Books on Architecture | VitruviusDarausz dieses verstockten Volcks Aberglauben und Fabelwerck zu ersehen.
Wenn dieses auch eine Sternisch Kunst wre, so ist wohl so viel gewiss, es ist keine der schwersten.
Laurence Sterne in Germany | Harvey Waterman Thayer
British Dictionary definitions for diesis
/ (ˈdaɪɪsɪs) /
printing another name for double dagger
music
(in ancient Greek theory) any interval smaller than a whole tone, esp a semitone in the Pythagorean scale
(in modern theory) the discrepancy of pitch in just intonation between an octave and either a succession of four ascending minor thirds (great diesis), or a succession of three ascending major thirds (minor diesis)
Origin of diesis
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