Aristoxenian

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English

Etymology

From Aristoxenus +‎ -ian.

Adjective

Aristoxenian (comparative more Aristoxenian, superlative most Aristoxenian)

  1. Of or pertaining to Aristoxenus.
    • 1911, C F Abdy Williams, The Aristoxenian Theory of Musical Rhythm, page 29:
      By the Aristoxenian teaching one syllable in the above example is given the value of a dotted crotchet, that is, three “shorts,” and by the alteration of this single note from “two time” to “three time” value the whole line obtains a satisfactory musical rhythm.
    • 1993, John H. Chalmers, Jr., Divisions of the Tetrachord: A Prolegomenon to the Construction of Musical Scales, →ISBN, page 23:
      The tetrachords of Athanasopoulos (1950) are clearly Aristoxenian in origin and inspiration, despite being reordered.
    • 2005, Sophie Gibson, Aristoxenus of Tarentum and the Birth of Musicology, Routledge, →ISBN:
      Despite the variety of areas listed in the Suda entry in which Aristoxenus wrote—music, philosophy, history and education—it is his work on music and specifically the Harmonics which is the primary focus of this study. It is probably not by chance that this is the Aristoxenian work which has most completely come down to us.