单词 | limma |
释义 | limman. 1. Music. The semitone of the Pythagorean scale (see quot. 1694). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > interval > [noun] > microtones > others limma1694 apotome1696 diaschisma1753 schisma1753 schist1875 society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhythm > [noun] > quantity > short syllable as unit > required by rhythm but not expressed limma1694 1694 W. Holder Treat. Harmony vi. 152 The Pythagoreans, not using Tone Minor, but two Equal Tones Major, in a Fourth, were forced to take a lesser Interval for the Hemitone; which is called their Limma, or Pythagorean Hemitone; and, which added to those two Tones, makes up the Fourth: it is a Comma less than Hemitone Major, (16 to 15;) and the Ration of it, is 256 to 243. 1887 W. S. Rockstro in Grove's Dict. Music IV. 503 The Ditonic Diatonic Tetrachord, consisting of two greater Tones and a Limma, as set forth by Pythagoras. Categories » 2. Ancient Greek Prosody. A time or mora in a line required by the rhythm but not expressed by a syllable in the words: indicated in schemes by the sign ∧. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1694 |
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