单词 | disdiapason |
释义 | † disdiapasonn. Music. Obsolete. The interval of a double octave; a fifteenth; (in quot. 1761) the compass or range of notes included within the same. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > interval > [noun] > double octave fifteenth1597 disdiapason1609 1609 J. Dowland tr. A. Ornithoparchus Micrologus 21 Disdiapason, is an Interuall by a Fifteenth, occasioned..by a quadruple proportion. 1651 J. F. tr. H. C. Agrippa Three Bks. Occult Philos. ii. xxvi. 259 Sol obtains the melody of the octave voice, viz. Diapason; in like manner by fifteen Tones, a Disdiapason. 1761 Philos. Trans. 1760 (Royal Soc.) 51 702 The lyre..took in the compass of a disdiapason, or double octave. 1776 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music I. 8 It was the opinion of the ancients that this disdiapason, or double octave, was the greatest interval which could be received in melody. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1609 |
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